As the degree of population aging further intensifies and the living standards of our country's residents improve, community elderly education has become an important component of grassroots public services. The participation of diverse actors in the coproduction of community elderly education public services has become a new trend in the development of community elderly education. This study takes the Silver-Aged College established in H Subdistrict of Tianjin under the 'stranger society' as a starting point, and deeply analyses the establishment mechanism of coproduction in community elderly education public services with the participation of diverse actors. The study finds that: First, the appeal of community elderly education to the coproduction model can achieve 'cost reduction and efficiency increase' in the supply of public services and good governance at the grassroots level. Second, the participation of diverse actors in the coproduction of community elderly education public services shows five important mechanisms, namely the party-building leadership mechanism, informal leadership mechanism, spatial production mechanism, community network mechanism, and value cocreation mechanism. This study explains the coproduction in the field of community elderly education, broadens the connotation of the traditional coproduction concept, and provides experience and insights for the development of community elderly education in our country.

Jianchen Qian, Mengyi Ding. Research on the Coproduction of Community Elderly Education Public Services with the Participation of Diverse Actors: A Case Study of the Silver-Aged College in H Subdistrict, Tianjin. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 7: 123-128. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070718.

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