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Ageing and complexity. Reframing older adults' learning through interdisciplinary lenses
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SourceEuropean journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 16 (2025) 1, S. 75-96 ZDB
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ISSN2000-7426; 20007426
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Abstract (English):This paper presents a critical literature review on the systemic interconnections between ageing, learning, and care. Using the lenses of complexity and interdisciplinarity, the authors analysed a sample of 62 papers published between 2003 and 2022, examining their reference to micro, meso and/or macro levels, theoretical depth, and use of complexity as a sensitizing concept to understand implications for learning and transformation as structural features of an ageing society. Their analysis highlighted the role of different settings of care (formal, informal, and technology-mediated) in shaping, enhancing, or hindering meaning, well-being, and social justice for older learners and their caregivers, and the implications for society at large. Findings suggest a gap in the examined literature regarding the use of complexity theories to highlight self-organisation, interdependence, and co-evolution of individual and systemic learning. A theoretical interdisciplinary framework, we contend, would better mirror the multiple factors and levels entailed in the process of ageing. (DIPF/Orig.)
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Date of publication11.03.2025
CitationFormenti, Laura; Cino, Davide; Loberto, Francesca: Ageing and complexity. Reframing older adults' learning through interdisciplinary lenses - In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 16 (2025) 1, S. 75-96 - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-327370 - DOI: 10.25656/01:32737; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.5193
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