Mary Alice Wolf Presentations
The older adult in education: A developmental perspective. Paper presented to the Massachusetts Gerontology Association. (Co-winner, 1981 competition)
The experience of older learners in adult
education. Research paper presented to the Northeastern Gerontological Society,
The older learner: Education as a means to one's past. Research paper presented to the National Adult
Education Conference of the American Association for Adult and Continuing
Education,
The meaning of education in late life.
Paper presented to the National Council on the Aging,
Life review and the educational
experience. Paper presented to the Northeastern Gerontological
Society Annual Conference,
Life, review and reminiscence: Therapeutic
uses in the lives of older people. Lectures to the Annual Conference of
the
Psychological barriers to learning.
Address to the
Ethnic Issues Lecture Series, (four videotapes). Institute
in Gerontology,
Tapping the world of the older adult.
Paper presented to the National Adult Education Conference of the American
Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Growth and development with older women
religious. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education,
Life review workshops and women religious. Paper presented
to the annual meeting of the Northeastern Gerontological
Society,
Motivation. Address to the annual
meeting of the Intercommunity Retirement Board,
Motivation in late life. Paper
presented to the National Adult Education Conference, American Association for
Adult and Continuing Education,
Keynote address, Growing together,
American Baptist Churches of
Human development, gerontology, and self
development through the writings of May Sarton.
Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology
in Higher Education,
Motivation in late life: The personal need for challenge. Excerpted in Resources in Education (National Institute in Education) ERIC Publication ED 262 196, CE 042 575 (1986)
Aging and development: A personal issue.
Lecture,
The study of life in retrospection: Life review interviews
with elderly women religious. Paper presented to the Sixth Annual Conference,
Northeastern Gerontology,
Backwards and forwards: An approach to understanding the
older learner. Paper presented to the National Adult Education Conference,
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Developing a consortium of long-term care
providers to share educational resources. Presentation to the 13th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
In-depth interviewing: Training students
of gerontology to enter the subjective worlds of elders. Paper presented
to the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Gerontology in
Higher Education,
Women's development across the life-span.
Address to the Jewish Federation of Greater
The crisis of legacy: Life review interviews with elderly
women religious. Paper presented to the Seventh Annual Conference of the
Northeastern Gerontological Society,
Life review and reminiscence: An
opportunity for growth. Address, workshop, & resource kit.
Selfhood and the older learner: The
promise of education. Paper presented to annual conference of The
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Journal writing: A means to an end in
training students to work with older adults. Paper presented to the
Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Self development: What older adults
bring to education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American
Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
Aging and cognition. Address to the
Older Men's Club, Jewish Community Center,
Life within the convent: Life histories of
elderly women religious. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America,
KINDS OF LOVE by May Sarton: An Eriksonian paradigm. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual
Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of
America,
The discovery of middle age: An
educational task in training gerontologists. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
A population of Elderhostel learners:
Personal and private motivations. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting
of the Northeastern Gerontological Society,
Looking Back, Looking Ahead.
Keynote address at the Annual Installation, The Auxiliary of the Hebrew Home
and Hospital,
Older Learners: Inner Reflections.
Paper presented to The 39th annual Adult Education
Conference,
Lifespan Development and Aging: Options
for Education. Convener, Howard McClusky Symposium, American Association
for Adult and Continuing Education, Salt Lake City, Utah (1990)
Mentoring in the human development
gerontology classroom: A woman's model. Paper presented to the
Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher
Education,
The older learner. Paper presented
to the Annual Conference of the Northeastern Gerontological
Society,
The development of older women.
Keynote address, National Organization for Women,
Instruction of older learners.
Research presentation, American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Elder women religious: A phenomenological
view. Paper presented as part of Narrative and quest for meaning: The
spiritual journey in the later years, The Gerontological
Society of America,
Spirit and meaning: Strategies for teaching older learners.
Paper presented to the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Sharing of Educational Resources among
Long-Term Care Providers: Five Years Later. Symposium at the Association
for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Motivation, development in the religious
community. Workshops for the directors of retirement,
religious communities.
Instructors of older learners: Are they learning or
teaching? Paper presented to the Gerontological
Society of America,
Connecting with older adults.
Presentation at the Annual Adult education Conference of the American
Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
A consortium of long-term-care facilities devoted to
education: Fertile ground for research. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of
the Gerontological Society of
Connecting with Older Adults: Educational
responses and approaches. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Role reversals. Workshops as part
of the Interface Health Conference "Coming into Our Own,"
Gender shift across the lifespan. Annual Convention,
Learning: Meeting the challenges of older
adulthood. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the American
Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Principles of adult education and aging.
Challenges of learning. McClusky
Symposium, American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Grief, loss, and growth: The high cost of learning for older
adults. Panel, The Impact of Qualitative Research on
Applied Settings, 57th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological
Society of
Learning and transitions in aging. Northeastern Gerontological Society,
The diary of Anne Frank and the teaching
of human development/gerontology. Paper presented to the annual meeting
of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Educating our students and ourselves
through collaborative research. Panel presentation to the annual meeting
of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Gender shift through adulthood. Annual conference of the
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Connecting with older adults.
Annual conference of the American Association for Adult and Continuing
Education,
Coping with growing older.
Symposium,
Strategies for institutionalization of
gerontology and geriatrics programs in higher education. Panel,
Symposium, 49th Annual Meeting of the Gerontological
Society of
Connecting with older adults: A Nation Divided: Positive
Diversity or Irreconcilable Differences? Symposium,
Learning about learning: Developing ethnographic skills for
students of aging. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting and Educational
Leadership Conference of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
The older learner. Presentation to
the Adult Education Graduate Internet Conference,
New approaches to the education of older
adults. Presentation at the 46th Annual Adult Education Conference,
Current perspectives on 1997 older adult
learning. Keynote speakers at the McClusky Symposium on Aging: The 46th
Annual Adult Education Conference,
Exploring in-depth interviews to study
older adults' learning. Round table. The Gerontological Society of
A gerontology curriculum for home
companions. Presentation to the 24th Annual Conference
of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
Institutionalization of gerontology programs in higher
education. Panel presentation to the 24th Annual Conference
of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
Connecting Theory and Practice in Older Adult Learning.
Annual Conference of the Adult Education, Nov.,
Gerontology for Companions: Adult
education model. Presentation to the 47th Annual Conference of the
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education,
Transformations within the classroom experience.
Presentation to the Annual Conference of the Association for Gerontology in
Higher Education,
Strategies for institutionalization of gerontology and
geriatrics programs in higher education Presentation to the Annual Conference
of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education,
Transformations and gerontology.
Presentation to the Annual Conference of the Gerontological
Society of
Keynote speaker, Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, The
Long Term Care Ombudsman Program,
Programmatic interventions.
Presentation to the National Conference of the Association for Gerontology in
Higher Education,
Programmatic Interventions. Paper
presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education,
The six easy principles of aging.
Keynote address, Annual Meeting Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging,
Time, aging, and narrative: Learning
models. Presentation to the Annual Adult Education Conference, American
Association of Adult and Continuing Education,
Learning in older adulthood.
Presentation to the National Meeting of the Gerontological
Society of
Narratives of adjustment: Understanding
the older learner. Presentation to the Association for Gerontology in
Higher Education,
Narratives of cognition.
Presentation to the Gerontological Society of
Differentiation and the adult learner.
Presentation to the annual conference of the Association for
Gerontology in Higher Education.
Reminiscence work with older adults.
Workshop, Southern
Differentiation in gerontological
education. Presentation to the Gerontologicial
Society of