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Soares Marques dos Anjos, Jussara; Gomes, Lucy; Cachioni, Meire; Salmazo da Silva, Henrique – Educational Gerontology, 2022
The aim of this study was to document the impacts of an environmental education program with adolescents and older adults on attitudes about old age, and to investigate possible associations of these attitudes with age group, economic class, residing with grandparents, and grandparents' contribution to parenting. We investigated adolescents…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Student Attitudes, Correlation
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Dunham, Charlotte Chorn; Casadonte, Dominick – Educational Gerontology, 2009
This research reports findings from an intergenerational science program, Project Serve, which placed senior volunteers in elementary and junior high science classrooms to assist teachers and augment instruction. Items from the Children's View of Aging survey (Newman, 1997; Newman & Faux, 1997) were administered before and after the project with…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Intergenerational Programs, Science Programs, Aging (Individuals)
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Dorfman, Lorraine T.; Murty, Susan A.; Ingram, Jerry G.; Evans, Ronnie J.; Power, James R. – Educational Gerontology, 2004
Service-learning evaluation rarely compares different cohorts of students, so it is difficult to determine whether the findings are reliable. This study compared attitudinal change in five successive cohorts of intergenerational service-learning students (n=59) enrolled in an introductory gerontology course at a major Midwestern university.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Gerontology, Content Analysis, Student Attitudes