Open AccessThe Positively Aging® Teaching Materials Improve Middle School Students' Images of Older People
Author(s) -
Michael J. Lichtenstein,
Linda A. Pruski,
Carolyn Marshall,
Cheryl L. Blalock,
Douglas L. Murphy,
Rosemarie Plaetke,
Shuko Lee
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the gerontologist/the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/41.3.322
Subject(s) - curriculum , psychology , intervention (counseling) , socioeconomic status , ethnic group , mathematics education , medicine , gerontology , pedagogy , sociology , population , environmental health , psychiatry , anthropology
The Positively Aging program is an innovative set of interdisciplinary teaching materials that uses examples from geriatrics and gerontology to teach sixth through eighth grade curricular elements. The purpose of this study was to determine if use of the Positively Aging teaching materials by regular classroom teachers could change middle school students' images of elders.