Abstract

PERES, Marcos Augusto de Castro. A andragogia no limiar da relação entre velhice, trabalho e educação. Contrapontos [online]. 2006, vol.06, n.01, pp.65-77. ISSN 1984-7114.

This article analyzes the fundamentalist nature of the current educational model, considering its importance in the training of a qualified and disciplined workforce for the capitalist system, and the exclusion of the elderly, and older adults, from the bourgeois education project. For this, it considers andragogy and mass, or informal education aimed at the elderly, as alternative forms of education, which are wider and more universal, and which can be understood as spaces of resistance to the capitalist logic. Including the elderly and older adults in the educational agenda places in check the bourgeois education system, which is based on pedagogical education of a restricted nature. In the same way, the elitist bias of Third Age Universities contrasts with the high rates of illiteracy among the over 60s. Thus, an education which transcends the functionalist logic that is inherent to capitalism should be focused, above all, on the universalization of the recipients and a raising of political awareness.

Keywords : Education; Old Age; Capitalism.

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