Within the framework of the Doctorate in Pedagogy at Escuela Normal de Ecatepec, this research examines the cognitive aging of retired teachers in Latin America, a stage often marked by invisibility, loss of social recognition, and the absence of educational policies that could reframe it as a moment of learning and dignity. The problem is approached from a critical philosophical perspective, where bioethicopedagogy emerges as an innovative category that articulates the care of life, knowledge, and lifelong formation. The theoretical framework is transdisciplinary, interweaving 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 flowers and songs as symbols of wisdom, to contribute to a Latin American philosophical foundation and strengthen the epistemology of the South, which values knowledge historically marginalized by Western modernity. The methodology is qualitative and documentary, based on a systematic literature review guided by the PRISMA model. Academic databases such as SciELO, Redalyc, Google Scholar, and institutional repositories were used, analyzing recent publications on aging, teaching, and social well-being. Preliminary findings reveal the predominance of biomedical and functional approaches, along with a notable absence of intercultural philosophical-pedagogical proposals. It is concluded that integrating ancestral thought with contemporary frameworks allows the re-signification of retired teachers as epistemic subjects and agents of social well-being, thus contributing to the development of a more inclusive, ethical, and humanizing gerontological model.

Authors:
Trinidad Tolentino Ramìrez, Escuela Normal de Ecatepec, Mexico

About the Presenter(s)
Trinidad Tolentino Ramìrez, secondary school teacher Technical, my interest is to recover Nahuatl philosophy and contribute to philosophical knowledge. My doctoral research project is entitled “Cognitive aging in retired teachers.”

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