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Crawley, Amy A.; Crawley, William – Journal of Experiential Education, 2023
Background: Community-based learning is a high-impact, experiential teaching practice where elements of social interaction and authentic participation transform cognitive understanding into meaningful knowing. In the allied health field, the incorporation of community-based learning provides unique access to populations that are not inherently…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Community Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Intergenerational Programs
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Puntil, Donata; Dias, Gisele; Kralj, Carolina; Deplessis, Cathy; Rylance-Watson, Elizabeth; Ma, Carol; Zunszain, Patricia A. – Student Success, 2022
The aim of this practice report is to discuss the implementation of a service-learning module developed to support the psychological wellbeing of postgraduate students and older adults in the community, with a view to fostering their connection and tackling loneliness in both populations. The module, 'Self-Identity, Intergenerational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Older Adults, Well Being
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Zucchero, Renee' A. – Educational Gerontology, 2009
A comentoring project paired students in a lifespan developmental psychology course with older adults to conduct a life review. The intergenerational paring was designed to increase students' knowledge of older adults, the aging process, and development across the lifespan. Students developed a paper that included their partner's life history, a…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Developmental Psychology, Educational Gerontology
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Galvan, Christine; Parker, Melissa – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Constructivism theory (Crotty, 1998) served as the framework to investigate the reciprocal nature of a service-learning project that involved physical education pre-service teachers and urban underserved youth. Participants included three physical education teacher education (PETE) candidates and 15 youth between the ages of 6 and 13 who were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Service Learning
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Karasik, Rona J.; Wallingford, Minetta S. – Educational Gerontology, 2007
As intergenerational service-learning becomes an increasingly popular means for providing gerontology and health professional students with "real-life" experience, it is essential to consider the importance of strong community partnerships. Drawing upon a range of intergenerational service-learning experiences from two programs at…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs
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Wakefield, Marylin Osborne; Ericson, Carolyn Bartick – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Describes the Generations Together program, an intergenerational service-learning experience for undergraduate students and how the three generations - the young child, the college student, and the older adult - impact on each other. Presents the benefits to the participants, insights regarding children and their families, and students'…
Descriptors: Colleges, Experiential Learning, Generation Gap, Higher Education
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Koliba, Christopher J. – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Explores the relationship between service-learning and the development of social capital, particularly the expansion and deepening of social networks for children. Draws on ethnographic data from seven rural schools. Concludes that service-learning opened new social networks by providing students, school staff, and adult community members with…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Intergenerational Programs
Agricultural Education Magazine, 2001
Twelve theme articles discuss service learning and reflection in agricultural education, student perspective on service learning, Future Farmers of America, character education, intergenerational projects, agricultural communications, and service learning as advocacy. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communications, Experiential Learning, Intergenerational Programs
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Karasik, Rona J.; Maddox, Margie; Wallingford, Minetta – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
Service-learning is increasingly becoming an avenue used in a variety of disciplines to provide students with real-life experience regarding aging and older adults. Developing and implementing meaningful service-learning experiences, however, requires consideration both of the discipline-specific content to be addressed, as well as the varied…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Service Learning, Occupational Therapy, Intergenerational Programs
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Freeman, 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
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Gallagher, James J.; Hogan, Kathleen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Contends that science education researchers should devote more time to creating and studying models of intergenerational and community-based science education. Argues that such inquiries have the potential to provoke new thinking that could expand basic conceptions of what it means to learn and practice science. (WRM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
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