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Trinidad Tolentino Ramírez, Escuela Normal de Ecatepec, MexicoAbstract
Within the framework of the Doctorate in Pedagogy at the Escuela Normal de Ecatepec, this study examines the cognitive aging of retired teachers in Latin America, a stage often characterized by social invisibility, loss of recognition, and the absence of educational policies that reframe it as a period of learning and dignity. The problem is approached from a critical philosophical perspective, in which bioethicopedagogy emerges as an innovative category that articulates care for life, knowledge, and lifelong learning. The theoretical framework is transdisciplinary, integrating Potter’s bioethics, Freire’s critical pedagogy, Nahuatl philosophy, and the figure of the tlamatini, understood as a sage and shaper of “faces and hearts.” This perspective seeks to recover Mesoamerican philosophical roots—expressed through “flower and song” as symbols of wisdom—in order to contribute to Latin American thought and to rethink teacher aging from an ethical, pedagogical, and civilizational horizon. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative, documentary approach through a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA method. Databases such as SciELO, Redalyc, Google Scholar, and institutional repositories were consulted, focusing on recent publications related to aging, teaching, and social well-being. Preliminary findings reveal the predominance of biomedical and functional approaches, along with the absence of intercultural philosophical-pedagogical perspectives. The study concludes that integrating ancestral thought with contemporary frameworks allows for the re-signification of retired teachers as epistemic subjects and agents of social well-being, contributing to the development of a more inclusive, ethical, and humanizing gerontological model.
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Conference: AGen2026Stream: Aging and Gerontology
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Ramírez T. (2026) Bioethicopedagogy of Aging and Nahuatl Philosophy: Toward Teacher Flourishing in Inclusive Intergenerational Education ISSN: 2432-4183 The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2026: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-11) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4183.2026.1
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