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Liu, Yanping; Zhu, Wenyi; Zhang, Pinghai; Hu, Fawen – Educational Gerontology, 2021
The lack of adequate numbers of people working with older adults in an aging society implies the potential of attracting students from other disciplines to the field. This qualitative study explored the experiences of 52 Chinese psychology students who took a gerontological psychology course designed to prepare them for aging-related careers. As…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Interviews, Psychology, Undergraduate Students
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Lyu, Keyi; Xu, Ying; Cheng, Hao; Li, Jiacheng – International Review of Education, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many grandparents in China have spent more time with their grandchildren than they used to. When their adult children returned to work after a period of lockdown, many grandparents extended their roles from taking care of household tasks and looking after their grandchildren's basic needs to supervising their online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Distance Education
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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
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Anderson, Jim; Purcell-Gates, Victoria; Lenters, Kimberly; McTavish, Marianne – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
In this article, we share real-world literacy activities that we designed and implemented in two early literacy classes for preschoolers from two inner-city neighbourhoods that were part of an intergenerational family literacy program, Literacy for Life (LFL). The program was informed by research that shows that young children in high literate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, Literacy Education
MacPherson, Seonaigh – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora, the book extends its analysis to consider the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Linguistics, Achievement, Migration