Findsen, BrianFormosa, MarvinFindsen, BrianFormosa, Marvin2018-08-0120162018-08-012016Findsen, B., & Formosa, M. (2016). Concluding remarks. In B. Findsen & M. Formosa (Eds.), International Perspectives on Older Adult Education (pp. 507–519). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1978-3-319-24937-7https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12003This chapter provides a chance to reflect on the significance of the 42 country/regional descriptions and analyses of later life learning/education. It is deliberately entitled “Concluding remarks”, as opposed to “Conclusions”, to indicate that this is essentially an exercise using a problematizing approach (Freire 1984). This is a place for observation and critique of patterns related to later life learning. It is not a place, as post-modernists remind us, to espouse “grand narratives” on the state of older adult education globally but to examine some of the key dynamics at play in interrogating its character.44application/pdfen© 2016 Springer, Cham .This is the author's accepted version. The final publication is available at Springer via dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-068-1_5Chapter in Book10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1