Lifelong learning and citizenship in Chile: a different paradigm and a broken promise for the elderly

• Main Author: Javiera Sanhueza Chamorro
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: FahrenHouse 2013-12-01
• Series: Foro de Educación
• Subjects: educación permanente; educación para la ciudadanía; envejecimiento activo-productivo; políticas sociales dirigidas a personas mayores; Chile
• Online Access: http://forodeeducacion.com/ojs/index.php/fde/article/view/287

<p>Traditionally, education has been focused on answering two fundamental needs: socialize the new members of society and prepare them for the world of work, excluding the elderly, a situation that reproduces a social disengagement and the idea that they don’t have the ability to pursue these activities. The concepts of «lifelong learning» exhibit an effort to democratize knowledge, defending the right to equal opportunities for social participation compared to other age groups. Several institutions have been pointing out for decades the need to promote equal access to throughout life, but in Chile elderly is still associated more with problems than opportunities, creating an educational policy unable to consider them as actors their own reality. </p><p>Received: 20/01/2013 / Accepted: 12/05/2013</p><p><strong>How to reference this article</strong></p><p><a href="/ojs/index.php/fde/article/view/287/228" target="_self">Sanhueza Chamorro, J. (2013). Educación permanente y para la ciudadanía en Chile: un paradigma distinto y una promesa incumplida para las personas mayores. <em>Foro de Educación</em>, 11(15), pp. 229-240. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/fde.2013.011.015.011</a></p>