Ageing in a feminist key: reflections on the basis of a socio-educational workshop device

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on educational gerontology from a feminist, decolonial perspective and in relation to active ageing. It focuses on the case analysis of a socio-educational group workshop developed in a context of non-formal education in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, in which older people between 55 and 83 years of age participated. Using a qualitative methodology, theoretical categories, stories and experiences shared by the participants are analysed. The work aims, firstly, to reflect on the socio-educational workshop as a device for the construction of collective knowledge among peers, based on the recognition of themselves as bearers, creators of knowledge and protagonists from their own enunciation. Secondly, to provide some keys to rethink lifelong learning from gerontology and Latin American feminisms, especially through critical, decolonial and intersectional perspectives. It is committed to a feminist educational gerontology that questions and resignifies the patriarchal structures that have been imposed (and absorbed) during the life course.