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Download full textBrown, Carol; Knight, Linda; Battersby, Clare; Roche, Jenny – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2023
In this article, we focus on dance as intra- and intergenerational learning that cultivates corporeal knowledge held in common. Three interrelated projects reveal how danced connections between life stages develops an aesthetics of complex interaction and a mutuality of learning that enacts citizenry through communities in motion in the…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Age Groups, Dance, Interaction
The Intergenerational Mentoring Model: An Alternative to Traditional and Reverse Models of Mentoring
Direct linkSatterly, Brent A.; Cullen, Jennifer; Dyson, Donald A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
Given the changing composition of faculty, intergenerational workforce needs and skill sets must be taken into account when creating mentoring relationships. The traditional nature of academia lends itself to an intergenerational environment of Millennials in novice positions, while tenured faculty, typically GenXers and Boomers, act as mentors in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Models, Teaching Methods, Intergenerational Programs
Meimaris, Michael – Digital Education and Learning, 2017
In this chapter, Meimaris provides details and outcomes from two projects originating from the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education, and Mass Media at the University of Athens. Meimaris begins by highlighting the development and use of a new media tool, Milia, which supports online community-based digital storytelling (DST)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Zeldin, Shepherd; Petrokubi, Julie; McCart, Stoney; Khanna, Nishad; Collura, Jessica; Christens, Brian – Prevention Researcher, 2011
"What are the most fundamental strategies that organizations can take to sustain quality partnerships among youth and adults?" This is the question asked of five people personally engaged in community organizations that implement youth-adult partnerships. In this unique article, each of these professionals writes about strategies they have…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Decision Making, Youth, Adults
Feng, Zhao – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
Young people represent the future, and youth is an eternal topic. In the 1970s when the American anthropologist Margaret Mead published her famous work "Generation Gap," research on generations gained sudden popularity worldwide, and ever since the 1980s when "Generation Gap" was brought to China, research by scholars in this…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Youth, Generational Differences
Larkin, Elizabeth; Kaplan, Matthew S. – Young Children, 2010
Newcomers to intergenerational programs in early childhood settings tend to recognize immediately the value of bringing younger and older age groups together. However, they then ask, "But what do they do together?" The goal of intergenerational programs is to promote bonds between younger and older generations--relationships that will…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Newman, Sally – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1989
The social service field of "Intergenerational Programming and Exchange" has emerged in response to the growing elderly population and problems of age segregation and decreased interaction among older and younger generations. This article presents a chronology of events and initiatives contributing to the growth of the field from 1963 to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Aging (Individuals)
Duggar, Margaret Lynn; And Others – 1993
This publication spotlights the success and diversity of Florida's many intergenerational programs. It describes what intergenerational programming is and the three community needs that intergenerational programs address. Statistics on older persons as well as youth and families in Florida are followed by a listing of what intergenerational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Age Groups, Community Programs
Foster, Karen B. – 1997
This paper describes intergenerational (IG) programming and its benefits for children and elders, focusing on the preschool IG program at the Champaign County (Illinois) Nursing Home Child Care Center. The paper begins with a definition of IG programming and describes theories of adult development that may provide insight into how each age group…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Groups, Community Programs, Day Care Centers
Peer reviewedFreeman, Nancy K.; King, Sherry – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2001
Notes the increasingly popular pedagogy of service learning. Describes an intergenerational service learning project that brought together preschoolers, elderly, and at-risk elementary school students, included both direct service and indirect service, and made valuable contributions to young children's developing literacy, social-emotional,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1989
A consultation was conducted in China to examine the use of the experience and competence of the elderly in the education of youth and adults; the education of the elderly was also studied. Participants were 15 experts from Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, the Sudan, France, the Soviet Union, and China, along with…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Groups, Aging (Individuals), College Programs
Loewen, Jerry – 1996
This paper examines the definition and practice of intergenerational learning programs, and attempts to determine the characteristics of successful and meaningful programs of this type. The first section defines intergenerational learning and states its purpose: to bring young and old together for the purpose of learning from one another, under…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Apprenticeships, Children
