ABSTRACT

The concept and practices associated with learning in later life provide a broad context for understanding the articles published in the IJLE. The main aim of this review is to identify dominant aspects in discourses on older learners in the IJLE and how they have changed over the decades. Hence, we identify and briefly discuss historical trends in the lifelong learning/education literature before focusing on emergent themes from IJLE articles from 1982 to 2020. In the first part, we present an overview on the development of research on later life learning to provide a historical frame for the contributions dedicated to that topic. In comparison with the international development of research on later life learning, this topic has been somewhat delayed in the IJLE. Selected articles are discussed in the second section to illustrate and analyse the different approaches to learning in later life, as represented in the IJLE. The analysis shows that aspects of inclusion and exclusion – social marginalisation, exclusion from paid work, health resources, digitisation – are very central in many contributions. Thus, we identify different aspects of inclusion and exclusion in later life and discuss the role of education and learning in this context within the IJLE contributions.

摘要

与晚年学习相关的概念和实践为理解 IJLE 中发表的文章提供了广泛的背景。本次审查的主要目的是确定 IJLE 中关于年长学习者的话语中的主要方面，以及这些方面在过去几十年中发生了怎样的变化。因此，在关注 1982 年至 2020 年 IJLE 文章中出现的主题之前，我们确定并简要讨论了终身学习/教育文献中的历史趋势。在第一部分中，我们概述了后期生活学习研究的发展，以提供一个致力于该主题的贡献的历史框架。与国际上晚年学习研究的发展相比，该课题在IJLE中有所滞后。第二部分讨论了选定的文章，以说明和分析以 IJLE 为代表的晚年学习的不同方法。分析表明，包容和排斥的各个方面——社会边缘化、被排斥在有偿工作之外、卫生资源、数字化——在许多贡献中都非常重要。因此，我们确定了晚年生活中包容和排斥的不同方面，并在 IJLE 贡献中讨论了教育和学习在这方面的作用。