Age successfully: education contributions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i1p81-107Keywords:
Successful aging, Education, Human development.Abstract
Aging has become an object of great interest in educational research because it is now widely accepted that educational intervention in and with the elderly is a powerful instrument in a successful aging process. This text presents the results of an investigation/intervention project developed with elderly people. It aimed at the promotion of successful aging in a specific institutional context and, by following participatory action-research guidelines, was based on the dynamization of four workshops that favored the education / learning process of the participants. The data collected was analyzed according to an interpretive-hermeneutic qualitative methodology. The results showed an inescapable relationship between education and successful aging. Among other positive results, the analysis revealed the construction of new learning and the promotion of social interaction and interpersonal relationship as strategies favoring a successful aging process.