Education and Older Adults at the University of the Third Age |
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Authors: | Marvin Formosa |
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Affiliation: | 1. European Centre of Gerontology, University of Malta , Msida, Malta marvin.formosa@um.edu.mt |
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Abstract: | This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are manifest in late-life learning initiatives. Fieldwork conducted at the University of the Third Age (UTA) in Malta uncovered the political nature of elder-learning, especially with respect to three intersecting lines of unequality—namely, positive aging, elitism, and gender. A cautionary note is, therefore, warranted at the dominant positive interpretations of UTAs since late-life learning, as any other education activity, is not politically neutral. |
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