Search for Differences in Learning and Education during the Aging Process

Abstract

Within the andragogical researches, scientists differently relate to the issue of aging and old age and specifics in the process of learning and education during the aging process. In this paper, we analyze approaches to age issues in student’s final research papers, defended at the Chair of Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. The aim of our research was to determine how the aging process is treated and explored in student’s final papers, as well as which differences are being sought in the researches of various phenomena of learning and education during the aging process. We followed whether, where and how problems of aging appear, starting from theoretical research approaches to the research problem, through subject, objectives, tasks, hypothesis, variables, sample, the research instruments, to statistical processing of the research results and analysis of those results (10 units of analysis). Special attention is paid to the analysis of the research results obtained in student’s final papers and the possible implications of these results to improvement of various aspects and elements of quality of education of elderly.