Os idosos na contemporaneidade

: o papel da escola na educação e recuperação da dignidade destes atores sociais

Abstract

The world population is getting older. The UN projects that by the end of the 2070s, the number of people over 65 years old will surpass the number of people under 18 years old. This demographic shift will result from increased life expectancy and reduced mortality rates observed since the 2010s. This trend highlights the impact of an aging population on the social and economic organization of the future. The UN anticipates that the world population will continue growing over the next 50 to 60 years, reaching a peak in the early 2080s, with an estimated 10.3 billion people. This represents an increase compared to the 8.2 billion recorded in 2024. However, by the end of the century, the projection suggests a slight decline in the global population to approximately 10.2 billion. Fertility rates worldwide have been decreasing significantly over the past few decades, dropping from 3.3 births per woman in 1990 to 2.3 in 2024. This decline in fertility rates is a key factor contributing to the slowing population growth and the aging demographic structure. Global life expectancy presents a continuous growth in the last decades, taking, consequently, several challengers to science, healthy, education, culture and leisure to the society for all. In the science context aspire to recognize and respect the circle of life stages with its specific character. Each phase, treat and take care, respect and value old people with their capacities and fragilities become worthy of their lives. By the way, the object of research focus on old person in contemporaneity, main specially about acceptance and understanding of child and young adults, relatively aging process, like constituent part of the circle of life and intergenerationality in family and communities.The assignment’s main goal is to identify how school promote educate to aging, in recovery of dignity of old people and specifically, reflect about healthy aging and active life of old person, show how children and young adults understand old person and their specificities; perceive the role of school for education and recovery of leading of old person in contemporaneity. This research study will be realized in a public school and in a private school, from São Luís/Maranhão/Brazil. This research will be a quantitative study, with a sample of children and young adults, the attend, since 6th to 9th grade of schooling. To collect data, the instrument used will be a questionnaire (created by us), Implemented in a habitual process with an explanation of each item, clear and objective. The results obtained will be treated and presented with clarity and precision. The final conclusions will be presented explicitly and confirmed.

Date of Award	7 Jul 2025
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Filomena Ermida Costa Figueiredo Branco da Ponte (Supervisor)