A presença do aluno idoso no currículo da universidade contemporânea: uma leitura interdisciplinar

Abstract

This work aims in one possibility of considering the elderly by his life stories and understand which factors took him back to class at 60 years or even older, after a long period far from school and how he learns and gets along with his classmates and himself. Making use of the sensible listening method, seven interviews were done in two universities in the south zone of São Paulo. One of them is confessional. Both have support programs for the elderly. It was also taken into consideration in the survey the need to build a wider communication between the elderly and the modern world. The interdisciplinarity was chosen as the main path, trying to understand how the elderly conceives and lives his academic life, through de narrative of his life histories. The concern to understand and to respect the way of acting, feeling, thinking and exposing of the interviewed was constant , too. The conclusion was that as the elderly told his stories, It was detected fundamental reasons for having a different and meaningful aging, through the building of new ideals. The return to study has shown that even being elder, there is life, dreams, there are possibilities. To curb them means to die!