Percorsi esistenziali e dinamiche educative nella senescenza. L’autobiografia come ermeneutica formativa

Human formation is a pivotal category of pedagogical thought: the educational process – understood in a broad sense as both intentional educational actions and spontaneous existential events – activates the dialectic of training in order to lead the subject to the conquest of a proper human dimension of existence. Each season of life has its own peculiarities and characteristics. The last age, the senescence, represents the end of the entire path, in which the elderly can complete with the last brushstrokes the symbolically canvas (perhaps a chef d’oeuvre) representing the whole course of his existence.