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Education for the Elderly: A New Educational Dimension for the Learning Society of Thailand |
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| Creator | Montana Pipatpen |
| Title | Education for the Elderly: A New Educational Dimension for the Learning Society of Thailand |
| Publisher | Behavioral Science Research Institute, SWU. |
| Publication Year | 2560 |
| Journal Title | International Journal of Behavioral Science |
| Journal Vol. | 12 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 43-54 |
| Keyword | education, elderly, learning society |
| ISSN | 1906-4675 |
| Abstract | This article analyzes 1) the educational ideology, educational operations and theeffects on life of the elderly; 2) the conditions leading to a review and a questionabout education that has never been available for the elderly making them "theother" in society; and 3) the unfolding that shows a process of constructing andlooking at education with a new dimension known as "education for the elderly" thatcreates a learning Thai society based on a thinking framework for education thatrecognizes human value. The results of the analysis with critiques based onmodernistic paradigm reveal that the perceptions of the elderly are onlyrepresentations of negative views and because the educational ideology focuses onproducing human resources valuable for the economic system and it turns the elderlyinto "the other". Consequently, the elderly are looked at as disabled persons who nolonger need learning or education. As a result, a question about the lack of learningsociety in which the elderly is the important part arises. Thus, a new dimension ofeducation for the elderly to construct a learning society in Thailand is proposed withthe following implications. 1) A review of the myths about education, knowledgedoes not occur only in school where the age ranges are specified, 2) A change ofstatus and position of the elderly to being co-creators of knowledge who can utilizeknowledge to be are self-dependent, and 3) Opening of an area of freedom for theelderly to express the value of self-identity and to contribute to providing others insociety with life literacy. In this respect, education for the elderly does not have afixed meaning as aimed by the state, and it does not refer to any one particular seriesof knowledge. Rather, it can change according to interaction, criticism, ornegotiation to enable people who are made "the other" to remain their existence insociety with dignity. |
