Mr Marvin Formosa
European Centre of Gerontology

Abstracts

  • September 2000, Education and Old Age : A Critical Analysis of Malta's University of The Third Age, Unpublished Master of Arts (Sociology) Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta.
  • May, 2000. 'Exposing Ageism', BOLD, 11(2) : 15-23.

    • Newspaper Contributions (Full Text)

  • 'Ageism : The Unrecognised Oppression', The Sunday Times (Malta), 11 December 1999.
  • 'The Universities of the Third Age', The Sunday Times (Malta), February 2001.
  • 'Concepts of Good Practice', The Times (Malta).


    • Presented Papers at International Conferences

  • From Dependency to Interdependency, Paper Presented in the Seminar Malta Ageing Forum (III), a United Nations National Seminar leading to the 1999 International Year for Older Persons, organised by the United Nations International Institute on Ageing, Malta, 29 May 1997.
  • Good Practice in Older Adult Education, Paper Presented at the Seminar on Older Persons in the Maltese Islands - with special reference to Gozo, organised by the University of Malta - Gozo Section.
  • The Role of Older Adult Educational Programmes in Class Dynamics in Old Age, Paper Presented at the 'Global Aging: Working Together in a Changing World', 17th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology, 2nd July, 2001, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
  • Third Age Education: A Feminist Perspective, Paper presented at the 5th European Congress of Gerontology July 2-5 2003 Barcelona, Spain.
  • University Programmes for the Third Age in the Creation of a European Higher Education Area Paper presented at The International Symposium on University Programmes for the Third Age.


    • Papers in Refereed Journals

  • 'Critical Gerogogy: developing practical possibilities for critical educational gerontology' published in Education and Ageing, 17, 1, 73-85 (2002)
  • A Tribute to Pierre Bourdieu in Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 117-124.
  • 2000, 'Older Adult Education in a Maltese University of The Third Age: A Critical Perspective', Education and Ageing. 13 (3) : 315-339