Udział ludzi starszych w edukacji nieformalnej
Senior Citizens' Participation in Informal Education

Summary/Abstract: Life these days provokes in an adult person a necessity of incessant learning. To an adult specificity, the most corresponding is an informal education, natural, or a nonformal one. However, it does not mean that an adult citizen cannot participate in a formal system, on the contrary, there is a wide access to such systems nowadays. Senior citizens, who are usually no longer professionally active, are nowadays in a similar life situation. Everyday challenges provoke them to learn continuously. The problem of senior citizens’ education can be also analyzed from a different perspective, in which elderly people become informal teachers for the others. The question is whether, nowadays, a senior citizen can still play such a role? Moreover, is it possible that emoving elderly people from the role they have had so far in the cross-generation communication, and putting them in the margin, with a simultaneous stimulation to create only the intra-generational ties, causes the risk of generating the “old age subculture”? The answers to the above and other questions are given in this paper, which is enriched by empirical illustration obtained on the basis of the research carried out by the author.

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