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Paper describes a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class in a major urban art gallery in the UK. It examines the validity of prevailing theories of learning in later life that advocate reminiscence writing a valuable for older adults. The author argues that the value of creative writing for the individuals studied lies in the fact that it is relational (not individual) and a means of being in the present — thereby contradicting traditional concepts about older people as primarily retrospective and the importance of reminiscence in older adult learning.

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