Social Justice and Ageing: Older Learners as Active Citizens in a Complex System

The essay introduces the panel was based on the need to reflect on active ageing as a fundamental framework for late-modern societies, in order to address the challenges related to longevity. The thesis is that learning and education are main resources in guaranteeing justice, meaning, and well-being at all ages. Later life needs to be prepared in advance, by building the life skills that will sustain all citizens in the last part of their lives. Interdisciplinary research on education and learning, with a special attention to pedagogy and older adults’ education, could sustain policies and practices better aligned with the Active Ageing framework.