Fiona Clark, Anita Fochs Heller, Marianne
Barry-Gaboury
Peer Learning in Retirement: Collaboration with Seniors in the Community
leads to the McGill Institute
CAUCE, Montreal, QC, June 1990
Anita Fochs Heller
McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement
Quebec Association for Adult Learning, April 1991
Sandy McGoun
History of the MILR
MILR Newsletter, February 1992
Seniors Independence Program Grant and Maintaining Momentum conference (SIP
files)
1993-95
Carolynn Rafman
Report: Analysis of Moderator Focus Groups (SIP34)
Oct. 1994
Carolynn Rafman
Review of the Literature: Older Adult Learning Programs and Theory
(SIP11A)
Nov. 1994
Fiona Clark
Learning Thrives When Seniors Take Responsibility for their Own
Program
The Older Learner, Newsletter of the Older Adult Education Network of the
American Society on Aging, Vol. 4, No. 1. Winter 1995-1996</>
Fiona Clark, Carolynn Rafman, Joan Walker
Peer Learning: Why it is Successful and How it Helps to Make Education
Accessible L’apprentissage mutual: à quoi tient son succès et comment il
facilite l’accès à l’éducation
TALIS Conference Publication, Regina, SK, July 1996
Herbert Bercovitz
McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement
Seniors Independence Project, March 1997
Carolynn Rafman
Who Does What? Volunteer and Staff Roles
Elderhostel Institute Network NorthEast Regional Conference, Amherst, MA,
April 1997
Carolynn Rafman
McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement: A Case Study of Change in a
Volunteer-led Organization
Master of Arts Thesis, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education McGill
University, Montreal, QC, Sept. 1997
Fiona Clark, Anita Fochs Heller, Carolynn Rafman, Joan
Walker
Peer Learning: A Popular Model for Seniors Education
Educational Gerontology Journal 23:751-762, 1997
Carolynn Rafman
Dynamic Expectations: Volunteerism within Institutes for Learning in
Retirement
Elderhostel Institute Network Conference, Washington DC, June 1999
Fiona Clark
McGill ILR – 10 Years Young
New Directions: Maintaining Momentum III In-house Conference, Nov. 1999
John Felvinci
McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement
TALIS 11, Université du Québec à Montréal, Sept. 2001
Carolynn Rafman
Towards a Well-run ILR: MILR Self-Assessment Project (1993-95)
Steering a Course for the Future: First New England Conference of Institutes
for Learning in Retirement, Salem State College, Salem, MASS, March 2002
http://www.salemstate.edu/explorers/
Nancy Grayson, Thea Pawlikowska
Developing a Special Events Program
Steering a Course for the Future: First New England Conference of Institutes
for Learning in Retirement, Salem State College, Salem, MASS, March 2002
Carolynn Rafman, Meribah Aikens
Learning in Retirement at McGill University: A History
Third Age Learning International Studies Seminar, TALIS 13, Wuhan University
for the Third Age, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China, Oct. 2002
Carolynn Rafman
CATALIST: The Canadian Network for Third Age Learning
Carolynn Rafman, Joan Walker
From Canada to China: Learning Programs for the Third Age
Clearing the Hurdles, Overcoming the barriers to adult learning, QAAL
Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Nov. 2002
Meribah Aikens, Sharon Li, Carolynn Rafman
Third Age Education at the University of Wuhan, China
MILR Friday Lecture, Dec. 2002
Carolynn Rafman
Sharing Knowledge, Research and Resources: A Comparison of International
Networks for Third Age Learning
International Symposium on University Programmes for Seniors, Palma de
Mallorca, Spain, May 2003
Carolynn Rafman
A Review of the MILR Planning Process
TALIS 14, Later Life Learning: International Themes and Perspectives,
Coventry, U.K., Oct. 2003
Nancy Grayson, Carolynn Rafman
SPEAK: Seniors Practice English and Know-How: A MILR Inter-generational
Initiative
Meeting of the Minds: New England Lifelong Learning Institutes Conference,
Portland, ME, Oct. 2004
Fiona Clark, Nancy Grayson, Anita Fochs Heller, C.
Rafman
Learning, Community, Ownership: A Prescription for Ageing Well
Toward a New Perspective: From Ageing to Ageing Well, CLSC René-Cassin and
International Association of Gerontology, Montreal, Oct. 2004
Leonie Gordon, Harvard ILR, Carolynn Rafman, McGill
ILR
Stimulating Learning in Retirement: A Dialogue with Harvard and
McGill
TALIS 15, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, May 2005
www.cll.strath.ac.uk
Sandra Kerr, Ryerson; Carolynn Rafman
MILR Tracing Our Roots: Redefining Learning in Retirement
TALIS 15, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, May 2005
Carolynn Rafman
(1) Maintaining Momentum: A History of Long-Range Planning at McGill
ILR
(2) McGill ILR’s Long-Range Planning Model
(3) S.W.O.T.: McGill ILR
Mid-Atlantic Lifelong Learning Institute Conference, North Carolina Center
for Creative Retirement, UNC, Asheville, NC, Sept. 2005 www.unca.edu/ncccr
Carolynn Rafman, MILR; Kerrie Strathy, Regina
CATALIST, the Canadian Network for Third Age Learning.
Poster Session. Canadian Association on Gerontology Quebec City, Oct. 2006
Carolynn Rafman
Group Size Matters Maintaining Momentum VI.
In-house Conference, Nov. 2006
Carolynn Rafman
Purpose & Potential: A Proposal for Learning in Our Later
Years
A Legacy for Learning: Sharing global experiences of learning in later life
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, May 2007
www.cll.strath.ac.uk
Meribah Aikens
MILR: A Leader in Peer Learning since 1989
Peer Learning Opportunities for 21st Century Seniors, Seniors College,
Charlottetown, PEI
August 2007
C. Rafman, Astri Thorvik, MILR; Kerrie Strathy, Regina
Ageing Well through Lifelong Learning
Chinook Winds: Shaping the Landscape of Aging. On the Move National Seniors
Assembly, Kerby Centre of Excellence, Calgary, AB
Nov. 2007
CATALIST: K. Strathy, C. Rafman et al
Ageing Well: Learning in our Later Years
Canadian Association on Gerontology, Calgary, AB
Nov. 2007
Liz Parish, C. Rafman
Consulting the Participants, Maintaining Program Design
International Federation on Ageing Conference, Montreal, QC, 2008
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith
Peer Design and Peer Learning: Lifelong Education Program at McGill
Institute for Learning in Retirement
International Workshop, The Thoughts of Wellbeing and the Co-working of
Citizens: Alternative Care Practices in Canada and Denmark National Museum of
Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, Feb. 2009
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/
Carolynn Rafman, MILR; Kerrie Strathy, Regina
CATALIST: Linking Older Adult Learners across Canada
Adult Learning Knowledge Centre Symposium: Linking Communities / Overcoming
Barriers June 2009
Carolynn Rafman
Reaching Out and Engaging Community: MILR in Action
CAUCE, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, June 2010