Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The University of the Third Age and Active AgeingOrigins and Development: The Francophone Model of Universities of the Third Age

The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing: Origins and Development: The Francophone Model... [This chapter outlines the establishment of the very first University of the Third Age (U3A) in Toulouse in 1973, which offered a course on gerontology within the University of Toulouse’s Faculty of Social Sciences exclusively for persons who were above the then statutory retirement age. During the 2015–2016 academic year, lectures on languages generally attracted over 400 students. However, the themes of the lectures are quite diverse—including Tai chi, languages, and information and communication technology history, philosophy, art, religion, law, economics and natural sciences—and lasted 1.5 h, twice a week for 42 consecutive weeks in an academic year. In France, U3As are grouped within the French Association of Universities of the Third Age a non-profit organisation created in 1981 in Nancy. In 2018, UFUTA included 35 member organisations with 65,000 members. International cooperation is one of the U3A’s most important objectives, as the International Association of the Universities of the Third Age (AIUTA) brings together Universities of the Third Age from all continents around the world. AIUTA serves as a federation of U3As that includes national federations and other partner institutions representing U3As from various countries such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, the UK, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Malta, Japan, Lebanon, Australia, Mauritius, Senegal, Singapore and Tunisia—among others.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The University of the Third Age and Active AgeingOrigins and Development: The Francophone Model of Universities of the Third Age

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 23)
Editors: Formosa, Marvin
Vellas, François
The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing — Jul 2, 2019
Download PDF
11 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/the-university-of-the-third-age-and-active-ageing-origins-and-osKO0lHvKw

References (11)

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-21514-9
Pages
19 –30
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-21515-6_2
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter outlines the establishment of the very first University of the Third Age (U3A) in Toulouse in 1973, which offered a course on gerontology within the University of Toulouse’s Faculty of Social Sciences exclusively for persons who were above the then statutory retirement age. During the 2015–2016 academic year, lectures on languages generally attracted over 400 students. However, the themes of the lectures are quite diverse—including Tai chi, languages, and information and communication technology history, philosophy, art, religion, law, economics and natural sciences—and lasted 1.5 h, twice a week for 42 consecutive weeks in an academic year. In France, U3As are grouped within the French Association of Universities of the Third Age a non-profit organisation created in 1981 in Nancy. In 2018, UFUTA included 35 member organisations with 65,000 members. International cooperation is one of the U3A’s most important objectives, as the International Association of the Universities of the Third Age (AIUTA) brings together Universities of the Third Age from all continents around the world. AIUTA serves as a federation of U3As that includes national federations and other partner institutions representing U3As from various countries such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, the UK, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Malta, Japan, Lebanon, Australia, Mauritius, Senegal, Singapore and Tunisia—among others.]

Published: Jul 2, 2019

Keywords: University of the Third Age; International Association of the Universities of the Third Age; European Federation of Older Students; Educational gerontology; Older adult learning; Older students; France

There are no references for this article.