ERIC Number: ED673129
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Publication Date: 2024
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Intergenerational Learning in the 21st Century: Importance, Role, Features, and Types
International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, Paper presented at the International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) (Antalya, Turkey, Apr 27-30, 2024)
The contemporary social environment, and especially the technological and media environment, contributes to creating great intergenerational differences. In contrast to previous periods, when the young would learn from the old and when the context of values, resources, and access to knowledge and information was known to everyone and passed on from one generation to another much more slowly than today, the contemporary social and media environment increases intergenerational differences. Therefore, it is not surprising that the importance, role, and types of intergenerational learning are being increasingly promoted and researched in the context of lifelong learning. In contemporary society, intergenerational learning implies the mutual exchange of knowledge, values, and resources between two or more generations, whereby members of different generations learn from each other. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the features, types, role, and importance of contemporary intergenerational learning as an integral part of the concept of lifelong learning, with regard to the informal context of learning (primarily family and workplace learning) and in the process of non-formal and formal education. [For the complete proceedings, see ED672804.]
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Informal Education, Social Environment, Cultural Context, Family (Sociological Unit), Workplace Learning, Nonformal Education, Age Groups, Age Differences
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