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Competenze per l’ageing nei luoghi di lavoro: il caso di studio dei responsabili delle cooperative sociali nel territorio toscano

  • Vanna Boffo
  • Debora Daddi
  • Christel Schachter

The contribution explores the challenges and opportunities related to the transition from work to retirement within the context of demographic ageing and the extension of working life. Adopting a pedagogical and educational perspective, the study examines the role that social enterprises – particularly social cooperatives in Tuscany – can play in supporting active and conscious transitions into retirement. Grounded in the concepts of active ageing and educational care, the work highlights how the post-working phase can be enhanced through lifelong learning processes, the recognition of acquired competencies and the creation of generative relational environments. Using a mixed-methods approach (narrative interviews, questionnaires, and document analysis), the research underscores the need to overcome the current fragmentation of organizational practices and to build a new educational pact among individuals, organizations, and local communities. Within this framework, longevity is understood as a social and cultural resource and ageing as a phase of life to be inhabited with intentionality, care, and participation.

  • Keywords:
  • Active Ageing,
  • Lifelong Learning,
  • Life Skills,
  • Retirement,
  • Third Sector,
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Vanna Boffo

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6502-2484

Debora Daddi

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5643-329X

Christel Schachter

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0001-9348-9620

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Chapter Title

Competenze per l’ageing nei luoghi di lavoro: il caso di studio dei responsabili delle cooperative sociali nel territorio toscano

Authors

Vanna Boffo, Debora Daddi, Christel Schachter

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Italian

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10.36253/979-12-215-0744-7.69

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2025

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Accompagnare la longevità

Book Subtitle

Buone pratiche educative e formative per l’invecchiamento attivo

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Vanna Boffo, Michele Bertani, Donatella Bramanti, Rabih Chattat, Laura Formenti

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628

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2025

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Firenze University Press

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Studies on Adult Learning and Education

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