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Dynamic literacy by seniors for seniors, motivations and expectations
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The focus on lifelong learning, such as the creation of new educational responses that contribute to
the empowerment of people and communities, as well as the recognition and valuation of multiple
contexts where people acquire and share their knowledge in order to achieve universal literacy, has
guided the European policy guidelines.
In this article we present some results of a lifelong learning project – PROALFA, which promotes
literacy workshops, focuses on learning to read and write and are directed at elderly people in
residential structures. The workshops are performed voluntarily by adults, in retirement, who are
students of a senior training programme of a Portuguese higher education institution. The aim is to
understand the main motives, expectations and the driving forces that leads them to participate in a
voluntary way, in these educational activities, meet the participants of the workshop, interact
personally with them and their literacy aspects.
The data we present is based on a qualitative approach, using: i) techniques of semi-structured
interview, for the 4 senior facilitators of the workshop; and ii) documentary research, for the
characterization of the 16 participants in the activity.
We can conclude that the need to share knowledge and experiences, mutually stimulate cognition and
interaction with near generations, are the main reason that lead seniors to streamline a socioeducational activity.
In Portuguese society this project can be understood as good practice in adult education and for the
future elderly.
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Keywords
Lifelong learning Literacies Seniors
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Lopes, S., Mangas, C., Sousa, J., Pimentel, L. e M. Mesquita (2019). Dynamic literacy by senior for seniors, motivations and expectations. In Pixel (Ed.) Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference The Future of Education (592-597). Bologna: Filodiritto Publisher.