Published: 2016-11-17

PERSONALISTIC CONCEPT OF AGING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PEDAGOGY OF PERSON

KATARZYNA UZAR-SZCZEŚNIAK
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2015.2.05

Abstract

Old age is one of contemporary educational challenges. Theoretical and practical aspects of educational gerontology are constantly developed. Personalistic concept of human might provide the adequate foundation for them. Realistic and positive, grounded metaphysically and ethically, view on aging perceived as the time closest to the personal fulfilment, that arises from it, justifies undertaking educational actions concerning this period of life. They might create the scope of education ‘to’, ‘in’, and ‘through’ aging and include persons and societies. Potential project of permanent, integral education related to aging comes across objective obstacles conditioned by the specificity of elderly persons’ existence including environments they live in. To live the old age with dignity, what is the aim of personalistic education concerning aging presented in the article, is a particular, possible but demanding, challenge for seniors and aging societies.

Keywords:

old age, personalistic concept of aging, education related to old age and aging, pedagogy of person

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UZAR-SZCZEŚNIAK, K. (2016). PERSONALISTIC CONCEPT OF AGING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PEDAGOGY OF PERSON. Pedagogical Forum, 5(2), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2015.2.05

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