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Education for older people
— the moral dimension | | Author(s) | Robert Elmore |
| Journal title | Education and Ageing, vol 14, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 9-20 |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Rights [elderly] ; Participation. |
| Annotation | In recent decades, fundamental changes in the social and economic structure of contemporary Western society have challenged many firmly entrenched values and beliefs, engendering feelings of personal insecurity. These changes have been additionally fuelled by population ageing, the proliferation of varying forms of personal lifestyles and domestic arrangements, and the growing ascendancy of unexamined subjectivity in response to moral issues. All sections and age levels of society are likely to be affected; but perhaps the most vulnerable are older people, because of society's increasing emphasis on instrumental values to the detriment of expressive ones. This article will argue that, because of increasing induced vulnerability, older people's access to both instrumental and expressive education becomes urgent. Further, it is argued that this claim is not based exclusively on beneficence or simply pragmatism, although both are relevant. Rather, this claim is justified on the basis of social justice, using notions of fair equality of opportunity, access to democratic participation, respect of person, and the status of equal citizenship. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826256 A |
| Classmark | GP: IKR: TMB |
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