Sposoby teoretyzowania na temat edukacji seniorów
Methods of Theorizing on Education of Seniors

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the ways of theorizing about the seniors’ education theme. Speaking of theorizing we mean „[...] a process of developing ideas that allow us to understand and explain the empirical observations” (V.L. Bengtson et al., 2009, p. 5). In the article the defi nitions and functions of a scientifi c theory in the social sciences are discussed. The author considers the types of scientifi c theories in the research on seniors’ education. In the article the perspectives of recognizing the problems of old age in the discourses of sociologists and psychologists as the basis for theorizing about education in old age are analyzed.

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