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Educate for successful aging: reflections and proposals for action

O envelhecimento da população é, sem dúvida, um dos fenómenos mais preocupantes da atualidade, colocando sérios problemas e novos desafios às sociedades contemporâneas. Neste ensaio, pretendemos convidar o leitor a refletir connosco acerca de alguns dos desafios que o envelhecimento da população coloca à vivência intracomunitária dos nossos dias, de um modo particular, os de natureza educacional. A intenção é, em primeiro lugar, tentar desocultar as articulações que se estabelecem entre os conceitos de envelhecimento bem sucedido, qualidade de vida e saúde no sentido de compreender se o envelhecimento bem sucedido é uma realidade possível. Em segundo lugar, a nossa reflexão projeta uma incontornável relação entre educação e envelhecimento bem sucedido, tecendo algumas propostas de reconfiguração da educação de forma a esta poder ser entendida como fator promotor do envelhecimento bem sucedido e qualidade de vida na população idosa.El envejecimiento de la población es, sin duda, uno de los fenómenos más inquietantes de nuestro tiempo, el cual da lugar a serios problemas y a nuevos desafíos para las sociedades contemporáneas. En este ensayo nos proponemos invitar al lector a reflexionar sobre algunos de los retos más apremiantes que el envejecimiento de la población plantea al transcurrir del día a día en nuestras comunidades y, de manera particular, en el ámbito educativo. La intención es, en primer lugar, tratar de descubrir las conexiones que se establecen entre los conceptos de envejecimiento exitoso, calidad de vida y salud, a fin de comprender si envejecer con éxito es una realidad posible. En segundo lugar, nuestra reflexión revela una relación inevitable entre la educación y el envejecimiento exitoso y articula algunas propuestas para reconfigurar la educación de forma tal que pueda ser entendida como un factor capaz de promover el envejecimiento exitoso y la calidad de vida entre la población de edad avanzada.The aging population is undoubtedly one of the most disturbing phenomenon of our time, posing serious problems and new challenges to contemporary societies. In this essay, we intend to invite the reader to reflect with us about some of the compelling challenges that the aging population places to the intra-community experience of our days, in a particular way, those of education. The intention is, first of all, try to uncover the joints that are established between the concepts of successful aging, quality of life and health in order to understand if successful aging is a possible reality. Secondly, our designs reflect an inescapable relationship between education and successful aging, weaving some proposals of reconfiguration of education so that this can be understood as a promoting factor of successful aging and quality of life of the elderly population.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Impacto económico del ocio en el siglo XXI

The twenty-first century has radically changed the concept of leisure. Leisure was conceived to happen only out of working hours. Nowadays we are looking for important experiences during all our lives. The Institute of Leisure Studies of the University of Deusto focuses on the human experience beyond the tangible products. We are witnessing a major cultural change in the developed world where most of the population has turned into a philosophy that could be summed up as “having less, enjoying more”. At the same time, the TIC’S revolution has propitiated a deep change in the field of the cultural leisure through new areas as consumer electronics –with its greatest exponent: video games– and virtual communities. Leisure, as a result, has become a significant economic sector with a brilliant future. We are trying to address in this article its impact in terms of production, employment and income.<br><br>El siglo XXI es testigo de una transformación en el concepto de ocio, con un importante aumento de sus actividades con transcendencia económica. Hasta ahora el ocio se consideraba en los períodos de no trabajo y hoy se buscan experiencias importantes a lo largo de todo la vida. El Instituto de Estudios de Ocio de la Universidad de Deusto centra su interés en la experiencia humana más allá de los productos tangibles. Asistimos a un cambio cultural importante en el mundo desarrollado donde la mayor parte de la población se ha volcado en una filosofía que se podría resumir como “tener menos, disfrutar más”. Paralelamente, las TIC’s han propiciado una revolución en el campo del ocio: el ocio digital con manifestaciones como los videojuegos o las comunidades virtuales. Todo ello se traduce en un importante impacto económico en términos de generación de producción, empleo y renta que tratamos de abordar en este artículo

The Time Machine: Leisure Science (Fiction) and Futurology

There is a long, underlying presence of futurology—attempts to predict the future based on current or past events—throughout much of the leisure literature. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Leisure Sciences, I build on the work of futures scholars (e.g., Adam, 2008; Harrison, 2015) to explore how past ideas about the future have shaped the present. I revisit H. G. Wells's (1895) classic science fiction novel The Time Machine in view of recent trends and recurring debates (e.g., cybernation, (un)employment, the “leisure society,” and Universal Basic Income) that are (or were) forecast to shape the future. Throughout, I argue that the ways that leisure scholars envision the future have significant impact on the actions of the field and its practitioners today