Older Workers and Digital Literacy
Perspectives from Europe
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As more and more countries realise that their population and often their workforce includes a large group of healthy and active people over 55 years of age, the interest in understanding this group has increased. Investigating examples from across Europe, this edited collection looks at how older workers tackle the new digital world.
While dated stereotypes of older workers as slower, more stubborn and firmly rooted in the past still exist, this collection takes an updated look at the situation in Europe relating to older workers who are using and developing new technologies. Identifying similarities and differences in competence development, cultures and policies, chapters provide a rich opportunity for learning and comparison. The chapters cover skills and lifelong learning, policy, attitudes, barriers and drivers.
With rich insight and breadth, Older Workers and Digital Literacy provides a much-needed update on our understanding of older workers and how they are adapting to digitalization in their workplaces.
Chapter 1. Disentangling the Links between Age, Digital Literacy and Work – An Introduction to this Book; Dorothy Sutherland Olsen, Anne Inga Hilsen, and Martina Rašticová
- Chapter 2. European Policies Addressing Digital Skills Development among Older Workers: A Policy Review; Eva Bei and Marco Albertini
- Chapter 3. From Resistance to Resilience – Towards an Age-Sensitive Digital Literacy Acceptance Model; Cristina Maria Tofan, Daniela Tatiana Șoitu, and Silvana Crivoi
- Chapter 4. The Three Pillars of Inclusive AI Adaptation in Later Age: Comparative Analysis of Capability Building, Workplace Support, and Policy Alignment in Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine; Martina Rašticová, Petia Genkova, Sylwia Przytuła, Nataliia Versal, Nataliia Tkalenko, Eva Šerá, and Edyta Stępczak
- Chapter 5. Different Digital Literacies of Older Care Workers; Vlas Nikulkin and Catharina Margaretha van Leersum
- Chapter 6. New Technology in the Hospital Sector – How do Older Nurses Manage?; Tove Midtsundstad
- Chapter 7. Exploring Management Attitudes towards Promoting Digital Literacy in Older Workers: A Qualitative Study in Turkey's Urban Workplaces; Feyza Dalaylı
- Chapter 8. How do Older Workers in Germany Experience the Digitalisation of their Workplaces?; Melanie Ebener
- Chapter 9. Age, Gender and Work: Mapping the Digital Divide on Training in Portugal; Sara Ramos, Inês C. Sousa, and Luís M. Ribeiro
- Chapter 10. Staying in the Labour Force Despite Digitalization: Older Workers, Gender, and Non-Formal Education in Central and Eastern Europe; Selda Görkey
- Chapter 11. Digital Literacy and Technology Integration: Shaping Senior Educators' Attitudes and Practices; Ramona Paloș, Delia Vîrgă, and Merima Carmen Petrovici
- Chapter 12. Conclusion and Next Steps; Dorothy Sutherland Olsen, Anne Inga Hilsen, and Martina Rašticová
Dorothy Sutherland Olsen is a Research Professor at the Nordic Institute for Studies of Innovation, Research & Education (NIFU). She has a PhD in educational science and Master’s degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde, where she studied information technology. She has also worked in business for many years where she managed technology development projects and was responsible for technology training of employees in banking and finance. Her research interests are innovation and adult learning at work.
Anne Inga Hilsen is a Sociologist with a PhD in enterprise development and work organisation research from the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU). At the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Anne Inga works with social partnerships, participatory development projects and ageing studies as her research area.
Martina Rašticová is Associate Professor at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, leading the Department of Management and the Research Team Smart Society. She chairs the COST Action DIGI-net, CA21107, focusing on work inequalities due to digitalization.