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Matthew Dunleavy; Susan Andrews; Carla VanBeselaere; Christelinda Laureijs; Shannon Goguen; Denise Roy-Loar – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
Launched in 2021 by a team of undergraduate students, university faculty, associate researchers, and community partners collaborating as genuine equals in a diverse team, the Together Time Story Sacks intergenerational literacies program forms part of an ongoing action research project aimed at understanding and addressing barriers that residents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, Undergraduate Students
Yep, Kathleen S. – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
Interactions between universities and surrounding communities have the potential to create empowering education through community engagement. Innovative "town/gown" relationships such as multigenerational learning communities with immigrant communities may foster positive student learning outcomes while at the same time strengthen local…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Immigrants, Adult Education, Community Education
Surlis, Mary – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2012
This paper introduces Living Scenes, and intergenerational programme of learning which has been in operation in selected schools in Ireland for the last thirteen years. An overview of the programme is followed by a description of the hidden curriculum and the transmission of arbitrary culture in an educational context. This is followed by an…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Hidden Curriculum
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Tam, Maureen – Educational Gerontology, 2014
This article shares the experience of the development, implementation, and evaluation of a service learning course that aims at promoting intergenerational learning between university students and older adults through engagement in community service. It is through service learning that the course purports to achieve intergenerational learning and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Intergenerational Programs, College Students, Older Adults