"Mommy wants to learn the computer": How middle-aged and elderly women in taiwan learn ICT through social support

Adult Education Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-90

  Lin, Cecilia I C ^a   Tang, Wen hui ^b   Kuo, Feng Yang ^b  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

gender; ICT learning; middle aged and elderly women; nonprofit organization (NPO); social intervention; social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455189588     PISSN: 07417136     EISSN: 15523047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741713610392760     Document Type: Article

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