scholarly journals SOCIAL POTENTIAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHERS OF THE THIRD AGE: PROBLEMS AND NEW CHALLENGES

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Elena SHUKLİNA ◽  
Mariya PEVNAYA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Third Age ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Potential

Introduction Russian teachers of the third age are a social group that is currently in a difficult and ambiguous situation. On the one hand, raising the retirement age in Russia sets them the task of further professional development. On the other hand, the level of professional requirements associated with increasing the competitiveness of Russian higher education in the global educational space is sharply increasing. The purpose of the article is to answer the question - how the accumulated social potential of the third age's teachers allows them to adapt to new conditions, to increase the level of competitiveness, to act as a factor in the development of the University teaching community and higher education in general. Materials and methods The article is based on the materials of research team in the Ural Federal University (2017-2019). The article uses quantitative data of the mass survey of teachers in the Ural Federal district, implemented by the method of questioning. The population is 51 University of the Ural Federal district. Quota sampling was implemented in the study. The volume of the teachers' sample is 810 people. Social community of the third age's teachers was 38.5% of the total sample. The results of research The social potential of University teachers was considered in the context of the following structural elements: professional qualification, innovation, cultural, civil. Teachers of the third age have higher professional and qualification potential (qualification and status characteristics) than other age groups. The innovative potential realized in research activity and educational process is also high. This applies to innovation activity implemented in research projects and scientific communication. Their cultural practices are quite diverse, and the activity of cultural consumption is even higher than that of colleagues of other age groups. Civic activity of the third age's teachers is manifested in various forms of public participation, implemented through interaction with authorities of different levels and public organizations. The specificity of their civic activity is the implementation of expert functions that require high qualification, which has this group of teachers. At the same time, the teaching community of the third age notes the lack of sufficient institutional conditions for effective development, manifested primarily in the low level of social protection in the professional sphere. General conclusions University teachers of the third age have sufficient adaptive potential in the new challenges of the social environment. At the same time, the basic problem of their development is the creation of institutional conditions for professional activities and the effective realization of their social potential. Keywords Educational reforms, university teachers, teaching community, public participation, higher education, third age

READINESS OF RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHERS TO WORK IN EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION SETTING

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
.D. Kalugina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
General Attitude ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Educational Inclusion

the article deals with the problem of implementing inclusive education in Russianuniversities . Despite the fact that education (training?) for people with disabilities has been implemented at all levels of Russianeducationfor several years, the general attitude to it is ambiguous, as well as the attitudeof the teaching community. The author has conducted a social survey research trying to estimate University teachers’ readiness to work with groups where such students study. The research has revealed insufficient motivational and technological maturity level. Following this, the author providesrecommendations for overcoming these challenges.

Vertical Stratification

2018 ◽  
pp. 125-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Cantwell ◽  
Simon Marginson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle Layer ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Vertical Stratification ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Bifurcation Process ◽  
Positional Value

This chapter considers national system stratification in high participation systems (HPS) of higher education. As demand for higher education increases, the social value of places within a system becomes more differentiated on a binary basis, between places offering exceptionally high positional value and others offering little value. Three prepositions about stratification are advanced. The first expands on the tendency to system bifurcation in HPS, with a small and elite ‘artisanal’ sector, mostly research-intensive universities, opposed to a larger and undistinguished ‘demand-absorbing’ sector. The second proposition identifies a set of drivers that push the bifurcation process. The third proposition recognizes that bifurcation is always incomplete and focuses on the contradictory dynamics of the ‘middle’ layer of higher education institutions in most HPS. Nationally specific factors that accentuate or limit stratification are identified.

scholarly journals Psychological and pedagogical aspects of interaction between students and retro-students in the educational process at the Institute of the third age

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 06011
Author(s):  
Anatoly P. Smantser ◽  
Tatiana A. Sidorchuk ◽  
Мaria А. Sidorchuk
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Intergenerational Interaction

The article deals with the features of intergenerational interaction of students of different ages within a single educational environment and an ambiguous attitude to the social and psychological experience of generations. Empirical research has shown that within the framework of a gerontological unit all age groups of students have an opportunity to receive a qualitatively new social experience on a permanent basis in professional, cultural, leisure and volunteer fields. It should be noted that the younger generation has a positive attitude to retro students; they want to and can become retro students’ mentors, helping the elderly to master modern competencies. Retro students, despite the difficulties of interpersonal relations, are ready as mentors to share their knowledge, social and life experiences with young people. The results presented in the article have shown that the most promising forms of cooperation between students and retro-students are master classes in various areas, and creation of gerontological faculties at universities is the strategic direction of gerontology education.

Growing old gracefully: social dance in the third age

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
LESLEY COOPER ◽  
HELEN THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Older People ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Dancing ◽  
The Social ◽  
One Year

This paper examines the meaning of social dancing for older people. It is based on a one-year qualitative research project, which is seeking to explore the experiences of social dance for people aged 60 years or more who attend various dance events in Essex and south-east London. The findings suggest that the social dance experience is not only or simply a beneficial physical experience for older people, it also bestows other significant benefits for those who enter the third age and beyond. It can provide continuity within change. It offers an opportunity to be sociable and have fun in ways that both reflect, and avowedly move beyond, the dancers' teenage years. It promotes a welcome sense of a community spirit. It is a way of becoming visible and aesthetically pleasing, and it bestows a sense of worth and achievement in skills learnt through dancing. Last but not least, dancers can experience the joy of a fit and able body in both real and mythic senses.

scholarly journals Ageing, corporeality and social divisions in later life

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1681-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS GILLEARD ◽  
PAUL HIGGS
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Divide ◽  
The 19Th Century

ABSTRACTThis paper concerns the social divisions of later life. Although research in this field has focused on class, gender and, more recently, sexuality as sources of division in later life, the division between the fit and the frail has tended to be ignored or viewed as an outcome of these other divisions. This paper challenges this assumption, arguing that corporeality constitutes a major social division in later life. This in many ways prefigures a return to the 19th-century categorisation of those ‘impotent through age’, whose position was among the most abject in society. Their ‘impotence’ was framed by an inability to engage in paid labour. Improved living standards during and after working life saw age's impotence fade in significance and in the immediate post-war era, social concern turned towards the relative poverty of pensioners. Subsequent demographic ageing and the expanding cultures of the third age have undermined the homogeneity of retirement. Frailty has become a major source of social division, separating those who are merely older from those who are too old. This division excludes the ‘unsuccessfully’ aged from utilising the widening range of material and social goods that characterise the third age. It is this social divide rather than those of past occupation or income that is becoming a more salient line of fracture in later life.

scholarly journals "UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE" AS A FORM OF SENIOR CITIZENS’ LIFELONG EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Larisa Lezhnina ◽  
Natalia Morova ◽  
Svetlana Domracheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Lifelong Education ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
Active Life ◽  
The Social

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of finding ways of social integration of senior citizens  to the conditions of the rapidly changing society. The main idea is to use the resources of life-long education for providing retired people  with the conditions to obtain information about the world on a systematic basis. The subject of the research are the form and the content of senior citizens’ lifelong education that is aimed at preserving their active life style and enriching their intrapersonal potential. The article gives the social-pedagogical model of lifelong uducation of elderly people that corresponds to their needs, and describes  the author's conceptual basis (openness of education, voluntariness, focus on the learners’ needs) and the content of the model (giving knowledge, developing skills, interaction and self-development training). The methods of the research are modeling and pedagogical natural experiment. The five-year experience of implementing the model of senior citizens’ lifelong education in the form of  "University of the Third Age" allows the authors to conclude that it is effective. In the students’ opinion, the educational programs of "University of the Third Age" meet their cognitive needs, provide their social integration, help them to maintain active life style, increase their satisfaction with the quality of their life. Thus, higher educational institutions can and should become the place where senior citizens can get education and training. 

scholarly journals Higher Education Institutions in Mexico and their participation in the Social and Solidarity Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sosa-Larrainzar ◽  
Emma Biviano-Pérez ◽  
Avelina García-Sánchez ◽  
María de Lourdes Avelino-Tepanecatl
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Level ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Programs

Interesting is the participation of education in the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESyS), fundamentally of the higher level, as a key piece of action with society. Mexico has a little more than 5,334 university schools, 6 states concentrate 42.8% of HEIs, Puebla is located as the third entity with the largest number of universities with just over 480 university campuses, after Mexico City and the Mexico state. The objective of this research work is to analyze that Higher Education Institutions (IES) of the public or private sphere, in Mexico, contemplate in their academic offer Study Programs (PE) to the ESyS, which emerges at local, regional, national level and global as the Third Sector, considering the cooperatives, whose presence in Mexico was in the year of 1873, when the first production cooperative emerged. The research is documentary theorist. Results: in Mexico, .14% of studies in ESyS or some variant are offered: four undergraduate degrees, one in open and distance mode; in postgraduates: three Masters and an Inter-institutional Doctorate (in which two HEIs participate). Therefore, the academic offer in Mexican territory in ESyS does not get 1%, insufficient to support cooperatives, some with state and national recognition. The proposal is that this type of educational offer be carried out in each federal entity of Mexico, to reinforce cooperatives, organizations with contributions in the economy of this country from the educational field.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship in the third age: data from Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
I. S. Pinkovetskaia ◽  
Y. V. Nuretdinova ◽  
A. A. Navasardyan
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Official Information

The purpose of the study was to analyze the features of early entrepreneurial activity in the third age, to assess the dynamics of its change in recent years in Russia and the projected values for the future. The study examined the advantages and disadvantages of early entrepreneurship in the age group, estimated its levels for the period from 2013 to 2018, compared business activity in Russia and a number of large economically developed countries, and proposed a forecast of the potential number of start-up entrepreneurs, taking into account current trends. The results of surveys conducted during the Global monitoring of entrepreneurship and the corresponding national report on Russia, as well as official information from the Federal state statistics service, reflecting the population size by age groups and demographic forecast, were used as initial data for the study.

scholarly journals Catechesis of Seniors in the Context of Their Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Skoczylas
Keyword(s):  
Good Health ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Modern seniors who are characterized by good health at the end of their professional activity engage in new forms of activity. Some of them are involved in the activities of universities of the third age, belong to the Family of Radio Maryja, are volunteers or use various forms of religious tourism and pilgrimages. Many manifestations of their activity come from the religiosity of seniors. The growing religiosity of seniors requires a systematic catechesis that helps them in its development. The church emphasizes that this catechesis should be adapted to the situation of a senior. Catechesis helps to read the religious meaning of this stage of life and to strengthen the motivation for Christian presence in the family and environment. Therefore, this catechesis should strengthen religious interest in faith, shape and sustain the motivation of Christian activity, in the Church and in the world. This is reflected in the Christian involvement in family upbringing, in the ecclesial community, for the social good and also in an attractive way of spending free time.

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