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Dauenhauer, Jason A.; Heffernan, Kristin M.; Cesnales, Nicole I. – Educational Gerontology, 2018
As the population ages, colleges and universities have opportunities to promote intergenerational learning by inviting lifelong learners to engage with students in the classroom. This article outlines an initiative to enroll older adults as auditors and to describe their experiences. Thirty of 40 older adult auditors completed a hard-copy survey…
Descriptors: Older Adults, College Students, Student Attitudes, Credits
Millard, Lyman – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2018
No two charter public schools are alike and the guiding purpose of the Pathway to Success series is to highlight the breadth of quality options available to parents and students across Ohio. This latest profile featuring Near West Intergenerational School in Cleveland, is a perfect example of a charter school born from a community's desire for…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Lifelong Learning
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Caraballo, Limarys; Soleimany, Sahar – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2019
This article draws from the authors' inquiry into their experiences in an intergenerational research project--an afterschool youth participatory action research seminar in which youth, preservice teachers, scholars, and teaching artists collaborate on action research. Building on a semester-long examination of the second author's experiences in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Seminars, Inquiry, Research Projects
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Fox, Madeline; Fine, Michelle – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
The authors trace the connections between multigenerational participatory action research and relational approaches to shared leadership, illustrating how the collective production of knowledge through research builds youth leadership capacity.
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Leadership Training, Intergenerational Programs
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McGuire, Sandra L. – Online Submission, 2017
Life expectancy is increasing worldwide. Unfortunately, people are generally not prepared for this long life ahead and have ageist attitudes that inhibit maximizing the "longevity dividend" they have been given. Aging education can prepare people for life's later years and combat ageism. It can reimage aging as a time of continued…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Social Attitudes, Life Style
Bial, Virginia; Hazen, Andrea; Sylvester, Kristen – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
This article describes the development and implementation of an integrated early childhood mental health and caregiver support program that uses a transdisciplinary approach to engage families and systems, maximize service efficiency, and ultimately create a next generation of safer families. A case example illustrates a family's journey through…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mental Health, Caregivers, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Wilson, Nathan J.; Cordier, Reinie; Milbourn, Benjamin; Mahoney, Natasha; Hoey, Ciarain; Buchanan, Angus – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Gaining employment can be challenging for young adults with intellectual disability (ID). This study reports on a mentoring intervention to help counter barriers to employment. Method: A single-group, pre-post design was used. Eighteen young men with mild to moderate ID joined a local Men's Shed and were assigned a Shed member as their…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Mentors, Young Adults, Males
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Lovell, Elyse D'nn; Jordan, Kristine E.; Scott, Ravyn; Booth, Shelley; Ericson, Joshua; Strutzel, Raymond; Hamm, Mary Catherine – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
The purpose of this paper was to share an intergenerational approach for learning as undergraduate students became researchers. Student-researchers selected one topic as a team that was anchored in gerontological theory and then interviewed and taught elder participants using a qualitative approach. The richness of this qualitative research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Gerontology, Older Adults
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Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Educators who introduce critical socio-ecological issues into learning contexts often experience formidable internal and external challenges. This is especially true when intersecting Indigenous and environmental issues are involved. Compounding such difficulties in Canada is an inadequate level of pre-service, curricular, resource, and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation (Environment), Culturally Relevant Education
Luesse, Hiershenee B.; Luesse, Joseph E. – Online Submission, 2019
This report presents best practices in wraparound care from three perspectives: the research perspective as reflected in empirical studies and non-empirical literature, professional knowledge and values generated from interviews with industry leaders, as well as consumer insights from clients of the Comprehensive Case Management program. The…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Poverty Programs, Caseworker Approach, Counselor Client Relationship
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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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Meimaris, Michael – Digital Education and Learning, 2017
In this chapter, Meimaris provides details and outcomes from two projects originating from the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education, and Mass Media at the University of Athens. Meimaris begins by highlighting the development and use of a new media tool, Milia, which supports online community-based digital storytelling (DST)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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Heydon, Rachel; McKee, Lori; O'Neill, Susan – Literacy, 2018
This exploratory case study examined the affordances of singing as a multimodal literacy practice within ensembles that featured art, singing and digital media produced in an intergenerational programme that served a class of kindergarten children and community elders. The programme that was set up by the study in collaboration with a rural school…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, Art Activities, Singing
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2018
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family Economic Success-Early Childhood Education (FES-ECE) initiative, launched in October 2013, is rooted in the belief that families do better when programs can offer simultaneous support to children and parents. The report, designed to aid funders, is part of the Casey Foundation's ongoing commitment to sharing…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Intergenerational Programs, Poverty, Low Income Groups
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Silver, Michelle Pannor; Cronin, Shawna M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Evidence suggests that children and adolescents growing up in low-income families and those with underrepresented ethnocultural backgrounds tend to have high prevalence rates of obesity and more difficulty adhering to childhood obesity interventions. However, less is known about how intergenerational, family-based approaches to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Compliance (Psychology), Obesity, Family Role
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