具身认知视域下社区老年教育的实施路径探析

Analysis of the Community Education Ways for Aged from the Perspective of Embodied Cognition

老龄化及其引发的心理问题是目前突出的社会问题之一,为老年人提供多种形式的养老育老服务已经成为关乎社会稳定的重要问题。具身认知理论强调通过身体力行的方式开展教育活动,为老年教育开展提供新的视角,并依托社区这一基层组织,为老年教育发展提供新的实施路径。具身认知视域下社区老年教育开展强调以现实情境性环境为背景,以老年群体自身为学习工具,依托社区资源,开展老年群体教育活动,为老年群体教育提供新的发展模式。

The aging population is still a challenge that China is faced with,and will remain so far a long time to overcome.With the spread of the lifelongeducation thought,lifelong education gradually extend to two dimensions:the first is time dimension,which means the“elderly education”has been paid increasing attention;The second is spatial dimension,that means the community education is developing rapidly.The embodied cognitive theory breaks the separation between community education and elderly education,and advocates the integration between body and mind.As a kind of cognitive method,embodied cognition not only regards the body as the base for developing mind and skills,but also emphasizes the body as the source of knowledge to perceive life.Also,by breaking the isolated learning mode,and emphasizing the participation of environment,the embodied cognitive theory provides positive guidance for the development of community elderly education.