中国老年教育研究

The Research on Elderly Education in China

人口老龄化是我国的基本国情,根据老年人的需要和特点,为全体老年人提供形式多样、内容丰富、公平普惠的老年教育服务,是积极应对人口老龄化的重要内涵。结合文献研究和实地调查,对老年教育的基础理论进行了梳理,对我国老年教育的发展状况进行了描述和分析,并就我国老年教育存在的问题和解决途径进行了探讨。目前我国老年教育存在的主要问题有:相关法律缺失、管理体制不健全、经费投入不足、资源分配不均衡、形式和内容单一,以及师资队伍建设滞后等。针对上述问题,提出了相关政策建议,包括:建立健全老年教育立法、成立跨部门协调机构、加大老年教育资源多元化供给、推动老年教育均衡发展、重视基层老年教育、突出老年人的主体性、发展多种形式的老年教育、丰富老年教育内容、加强老年教育人才培养和科学研究等。

Population aging is the fundamental realities in China. According to the active aging policy, providing a fair and inclusive education service with a variety of forms and abundant contents for the elderly is very important. Based on the literature research and field work, this article discusses the basic theory and practice of the elderly education, and summarizes the laws and regulations of the elderly education in China. And then it points out the main problems existing nowadays, including: lacking relevant laws and regulations, imperfect management system, inadequate funding inputs, unbalanced distribution of education resources, simplistic educational form and content, and insufifcient teachers. In view of the above problems, it puts forward relevant policy recommendations, including: establishing and perfecting the legislation of elderly education, setting up an inter-departmental coordination institution, providing a diversiifed supply of the elderly education resources, promoting a balanced development of elderly education, developing elderly education in community, highlighting the subjectivity of the elderly, enriching the forms and the contents of the elderly education, and paying attention to personnel training and scientiifc research.