Cultural geragogy

Cultural geragogy as cultural work with the elderly includes, in analogy to the specialist discipline music geragogy , which deals with musical education in old age, tasks of cultural education (cultural education and mediation), i.e. instructing people to deal with art and culture and one's own artistic work, as well as the use of Art and culture as a means to achieve goals of general education or to deal with special aspects that enable an old age with dignity, self-determination and a high quality of life.

Cultural work with the elderly is therefore also part of successful development over the entire life span. It also includes cultural management tasks such as project management and, if necessary, fundraising and PR work. The creation of the word cultural geragogy is an analogy to the term cultural pedagogy, which is used in child and youth work. By replacing the pedagogy term with geragogy , it is emphasized that findings from gerontology are incorporated. Geragogy as a pedagogy for the elderly deals with the learning of older people, because they bring different interests, needs and learning requirements than younger age groups into learning processes. These other learning conditions require their own didactics and methodology for educational work with senior citizens , the development of which is the central task of geragogy.

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Fricke, Almuth / Hartogh, Theo (Eds.) (2016): Forschungsfeld Kulturgeragogik - Research in Cultural Geragogy. Series of publications on cultural education, Vol. 52, Munich
de Groote, Kim (2013): "Unfold instead of lift!" A qualitative study of the needs of seniors in cultural education. Munich
Nebauer, Flavia / de Groote, Kim (2012): On the wings of art. A manual for artistic and cultural practice with people with dementia. Munich
Institute for Education and Culture (Ed.) (2012): Kulturgeragogik - Kulturarbeit mit Älteren. Documentation of the first run of the training
Institute for Education and Culture (Ed.) (2012): Impulses for cultural work with older people. Documentation for the symposium on cultural geragogy on October 11, 2011 in the Franz Heat House Academy in Münster. Remscheid
Kulturräume + - The kubia magazine, issue 01/2011 on the subject of cultural geragogy. Art of living in old age. ISSN 2193-6234
de Groote, Kim / Fricke, Almuth (Hrsg.) (2010): Kulturkompetenz 50+ practical knowledge for cultural work with older people. Edited by the Institute for Education and Culture. Munich
de Groote, Kim / Nebauer, Flavia (2008): Cultural Education in Old Age. An inventory of cultural education offers for older people in Germany. Edited by the Institute for Education and Culture. Munich