Hany Hachem
Biographic Data
| ID | 4156381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hany Hachem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hany |
| FAMILY NAME | Hachem |
| SIGNATURE | HACHEM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Örebro University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2752-7710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emancipating older learners
The tension between education and emancipation is a recurrent theme in educational philosophy but remains comparatively neglected in critical educational gerontology (CEG). CEG is a philosophical strand in older adult education aiming at the social emancipation of older learners. CEG links radical emancipation to the outcome of raising older learners’ presumed naïve consciousness with the help of an enlightened teacher. In this essay, we argue th…
From crisis to crisis
In the context of the University for Seniors (UfS) in crisis-hit Lebanon, this paper analysed interview transcripts with 11 older learners (participants) and 12 term-curricula (2018–2024) to answer two research questions: (1) How empowered were older learners to understand the underlying causes of and act facing crisis? Moreover, (2) how did the UfS respond to the crisis as an empowering organisation? Results indicate unmistakable signs of intera…
Where is the reflexive ‘I’ in the Elements of AI
AI's opportunities and potential high-risk consequences for individuals and societies render mass AI literacy imperative. MOOCs are one effective conduit for its provision. However, MOOCs remain epistemologically one-sided when lifelong learning steadily shifts towards a reflexive epistemology whereby subjectivities and expert knowledge intersect, problematising the latter's relevance to agents when disregarding the first. Addressing the underexp…
The perspectives of successful ageing among older adults aged 75
Older adults 75 and above are a fast-growing segment of the population. However, few studies have investigated what it means to age successfully from their perspective. This group of older adults face challenges that might characteristically differ from younger older adults. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the perspectives of older adults aged 75 and above regarding what it means to age successfully and to s…
Ask them why
Older adults continue learning for intrinsic and extrinsic reasons. Literature has often portrayed the reasons for learning in older age as either intentional or as predetermined by socialisation. This emphasis on either agency or social structures is found, not least, in the humanist and critical principles of older adult education. This article addresses the question ‘why do older adults learn?’ Using the concepts of ontological security (Gidde…
On older learners’ naïveté
Many critical educational philosophies assume that learners are naïve and unable to critically read their social reality. Critical educational gerontology (CEG) aims to emancipate learners from oppression, to which they are oblivious . This strand of older adult education charges teachers with the task of raising learners’ naïve consciousness, by leading them on the (Freirean) path of critical reflection and critical action. Literature employing …
Lifelong learning
Decades of governmental neglect mark the socio-political realities of older people in Lebanon. They endure poverty, illiteracy, ageism, exclusion from healthcare and social security, and are absent from public spaces. Against the backdrop of these realities and Lebanon's ageing population, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration with other stakeholders, recently developed the first-ever National Strategy for Older Persons in Leb…
Barriers to learning at a U3A in Lebanon
This study examines the barriers older learners experience at a University for the Third Age (U3A) in Lebanon. Contemporary literature often categorizes these barriers into dispositional, situational, and institutional realms, arising as individual or structural phenomena. This article envisages barriers as the (un)intended consequences of (inter)actions among different institutional agents — namely, learners, teachers, and administrators — withi…
Putting educational gerontology principles to the test
The humanist and critical principles of educational gerontology attribute different goals to education in later life. Self-Actualization is the goal of humanist educational gerontology, while empowerment, emancipation, and social change are the goals of critical educational gerontology. Liberal arts education is dominant in later-life learning. Both the humanist and the critical philosophies of learning in older age claim that this type of educat…
Is there a need for a fourth statement? An examination of the critical and humanist statements of educational gerontology principles
The guiding principles of the education of older adults have been stated in three landmark publications. In their statements of principles, the authors of those publications affiliated themselves with one of two older-adult learning philosophies: a humanist or a critical one. Thirty years since the first statement, the field of educational gerontology is now weighted with theoretical ambiguities that are sustained by the polarised learning philos…
The case of educational gerontology in Lebanon
Context: In Lebanon, older adults face socioeconomic challenges that are expected to worsen due to an increase in older adult population, chronic governmental neglect, institutionalised ageism and a lack of educational and social gerontologists. Consequently, local older adults are in dire need for social change, which can be initiated through later life learning. The University for Seniors (UfS) is a University for the Third Age providing learni…
Is there a need for a fourth statement? An examination of the critical and humanist statements of educational gerontology principles
The guiding principles of the education of older adults have been stated in three landmark publications. In their statements of principles, the authors of those publications affiliated themselves with one of two older-adult learning philosophies: a humanist or a critical one. Thirty years since the first statement, the field of educational gerontology is now weighted with theoretical ambiguities that are sustained by the polarised learning philos…
The case of educational gerontology in Lebanon
Context: In Lebanon, older adults face socioeconomic challenges that are expected to worsen due to an increase in older adult population, chronic governmental neglect, institutionalised ageism and a lack of educational and social gerontologists. Consequently, local older adults are in dire need for social change, which can be initiated through later life learning. The University for Seniors (UfS) is a University for the Third Age providing learni…
Ask them why
Older adults continue learning for intrinsic and extrinsic reasons. Literature has often portrayed the reasons for learning in older age as either intentional or as predetermined by socialisation. This emphasis on either agency or social structures is found, not least, in the humanist and critical principles of older adult education. This article addresses the question ‘why do older adults learn?’ Using the concepts of ontological security (Gidde…
Lifelong learning
Decades of governmental neglect mark the socio-political realities of older people in Lebanon. They endure poverty, illiteracy, ageism, exclusion from healthcare and social security, and are absent from public spaces. Against the backdrop of these realities and Lebanon's ageing population, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration with other stakeholders, recently developed the first-ever National Strategy for Older Persons in Leb…
Barriers to learning at a U3A in Lebanon
This study examines the barriers older learners experience at a University for the Third Age (U3A) in Lebanon. Contemporary literature often categorizes these barriers into dispositional, situational, and institutional realms, arising as individual or structural phenomena. This article envisages barriers as the (un)intended consequences of (inter)actions among different institutional agents — namely, learners, teachers, and administrators — withi…
The case of educational gerontology in Lebanon
Context: In Lebanon, older adults face socioeconomic challenges that are expected to worsen due to an increase in older adult population, chronic governmental neglect, institutionalised ageism and a lack of educational and social gerontologists. Consequently, local older adults are in dire need for social change, which can be initiated through later life learning. The University for Seniors (UfS) is a University for the Third Age providing learni…
Putting educational gerontology principles to the test
The humanist and critical principles of educational gerontology attribute different goals to education in later life. Self-Actualization is the goal of humanist educational gerontology, while empowerment, emancipation, and social change are the goals of critical educational gerontology. Liberal arts education is dominant in later-life learning. Both the humanist and the critical philosophies of learning in older age claim that this type of educat…
Is there a need for a fourth statement? An examination of the critical and humanist statements of educational gerontology principles
The guiding principles of the education of older adults have been stated in three landmark publications. In their statements of principles, the authors of those publications affiliated themselves with one of two older-adult learning philosophies: a humanist or a critical one. Thirty years since the first statement, the field of educational gerontology is now weighted with theoretical ambiguities that are sustained by the polarised learning philos…
The perspectives of successful ageing among older adults aged 75
Older adults 75 and above are a fast-growing segment of the population. However, few studies have investigated what it means to age successfully from their perspective. This group of older adults face challenges that might characteristically differ from younger older adults. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the perspectives of older adults aged 75 and above regarding what it means to age successfully and to s…
Ask them why
Older adults continue learning for intrinsic and extrinsic reasons. Literature has often portrayed the reasons for learning in older age as either intentional or as predetermined by socialisation. This emphasis on either agency or social structures is found, not least, in the humanist and critical principles of older adult education. This article addresses the question ‘why do older adults learn?’ Using the concepts of ontological security (Gidde…
On older learners’ naïveté
Many critical educational philosophies assume that learners are naïve and unable to critically read their social reality. Critical educational gerontology (CEG) aims to emancipate learners from oppression, to which they are oblivious . This strand of older adult education charges teachers with the task of raising learners’ naïve consciousness, by leading them on the (Freirean) path of critical reflection and critical action. Literature employing …
Lifelong learning
Decades of governmental neglect mark the socio-political realities of older people in Lebanon. They endure poverty, illiteracy, ageism, exclusion from healthcare and social security, and are absent from public spaces. Against the backdrop of these realities and Lebanon's ageing population, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration with other stakeholders, recently developed the first-ever National Strategy for Older Persons in Leb…
Barriers to learning at a U3A in Lebanon
This study examines the barriers older learners experience at a University for the Third Age (U3A) in Lebanon. Contemporary literature often categorizes these barriers into dispositional, situational, and institutional realms, arising as individual or structural phenomena. This article envisages barriers as the (un)intended consequences of (inter)actions among different institutional agents — namely, learners, teachers, and administrators — withi…
Where is the reflexive ‘I’ in the Elements of AI
AI's opportunities and potential high-risk consequences for individuals and societies render mass AI literacy imperative. MOOCs are one effective conduit for its provision. However, MOOCs remain epistemologically one-sided when lifelong learning steadily shifts towards a reflexive epistemology whereby subjectivities and expert knowledge intersect, problematising the latter's relevance to agents when disregarding the first. Addressing the underexp…
Emancipating older learners
The tension between education and emancipation is a recurrent theme in educational philosophy but remains comparatively neglected in critical educational gerontology (CEG). CEG is a philosophical strand in older adult education aiming at the social emancipation of older learners. CEG links radical emancipation to the outcome of raising older learners’ presumed naïve consciousness with the help of an enlightened teacher. In this essay, we argue th…
From crisis to crisis
In the context of the University for Seniors (UfS) in crisis-hit Lebanon, this paper analysed interview transcripts with 11 older learners (participants) and 12 term-curricula (2018–2024) to answer two research questions: (1) How empowered were older learners to understand the underlying causes of and act facing crisis? Moreover, (2) how did the UfS respond to the crisis as an empowering organisation? Results indicate unmistakable signs of intera…
Pedagogy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Adult education (5 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Lifelong learning (4 works) · Reflexivity (4 works) · Technology Use by Older Adults (4 works)