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Clay, Rebecca; Ventura-Merkel, Cathy; Eades-Goudy, Dianne; Dubich, Teresa – 1993
This book profiles 74 intergenerational programs in the United States. The programs range from basic tutoring projects to a sophisticated corporate-based day care center. Project selection was based on replicatable programs involving mutually beneficial exchanges. Grouped by subjects, profiles include programs targeting both young and old. Most…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Download full textKerka, Sandra – 2003
The concept of social capital refers to the resources of networks, norms or shared values, and trust to which individuals have access as community members. A reason to consider intergenerational learning in the context of social capital is awareness of unequal access to positive social capital and the risk that social exclusion and disadvantage…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedStremmel, Andrew J.; Travis, Shirley S.; Kelly-Harrison, Patti – Young Children, 1997
Argues successful intergenerational curriculum should meet the following criteria: (1) developmentally appropriate; (2) socially appropriate for impaired adults; (3) functionally appropriate; and (4) coexploration and mutual benefit. Suggests activities including free conversation, singing, music, telling or reading stories, and cooking. Advocates…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Age Differences, Children, Curriculum Design
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
Kelly, Janette D. – 1991
The current status of intergenerational education in vocational education programs at the secondary school level was assessed in a Pennsylvania study. A literature review expanded upon the rationale for adult education, further defined the complex system of adult education, and introduced intergenerational education in a long history of adult…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Learning, Adult Students
