intergenerational learning
Participate in this year's edition of generations@school!
After the great success of the 1st edition of generations@school during the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012, we are pleased to announce the launch of this initiative’s 2nd edition!
generations@school competition invites teachers to organise an activity that brings pupils together with seniors from their communities to explore how dialogue between generations can contribute to a better understanding of each other. This encounter can be a debate on issues of concern to both generations or the launch of a joint project in which old and young cooperate on a more regular basis.
In 2012, more than 600 schools around Europe took the European Day of Solidarity between Generations (29 April) as an opportunity to invite older people into their classrooms. This year we suggest celebrating your generations@school activity on or around 29 April, but you can do it at any time before 30 June, the submission deadline for the competition.
Don’t forget to take photos or videos of the event! The materials produced (drawings, questionnaires, albums, etc.) will not only be a way of documenting the intergenerational dialogue, but also a means of sharing information with other European schools on what your class has done to take part in the generations @ school competition.
Imagine the ideal Europe for all generations!
As the European Union has designated 2013 as “European Year of Citizens” this year would be a good opportunity for teachers, pupils and older people to organise on or around the 29 April discussions about Europe, its past, its present and about what old and young can do together for building the Europe of tomorrow. What does it mean to be a European citizen? Which EU rights have we obtained through the process of European integration? How do the European citizens of tomorrow perceive these rights and how do they intend to make use of them? What kind of Europe should we pass on to the next generation?
All information related to this new edition of the generations@school competition, the awards that can be won and resources to help teachers in preparing their generations@school event can be found on this website: www.generationsatschool.eu.
Get ready to participate!
e-læring og sociale netværk i mentorprocesser for at støtte aktiv aldring
Mentoring eller mentorskab er en udviklingsproces inden for HR, som ofte bruges til at indføre, vejlede og sætte personale ind i en ny arbejdssituation.
Uddannelse af folk på jobbet eller ældre mennesker som mentorer kan arrangeres for at imødegå forskellige aspekter som f.eks. kompetencemangel i organisationer, rekruttering og omskoling af personale med ældre menneskers nødvendige viden og aktive engagement. I denne artikel præsenterer vi en række aspekter af mentorskab, især IKT-support af en sådan proces og giver eksempler herpå.
Generations At School
As part of the European Year 2012, we invite you to dedicate the European Day of Solidarity between Generations 2012 to bringing pupils and older people together to talk about what it means to grow up and get older, and to think about ways that the young and not so young can help each other to make their lives better.
During the week of 29 April, as part of the European Year 2012 generations@school project, every school across Europe is invited to open the doors of its classrooms to older people and to think about what an intergenerational dialogue could bring to education.
The best project from each country will be awarded with a prize.
Check out the competition rules and prizes and submit a photo of your event by 30 June 2012 via the generations@school Panoramio group.
Fot more information visit the generations@school website.
Why an intergenerational project at school?
• Recreating the link between generations makes it possible to promote intergenerational comprehension and respect.
• It can contribute to the development of individual competencies for a more inclusive society.
• Fostering intergenerational dialogue encourages joint collaboration: generations learn from each other.
• Intergenerational exchange significantly fosters solidarity, active citizenship and personal development, and strengthens teaching quality.
For more information about the educational dimension of generations@school and help with setting up your project visit the Resources section on the project home page.
EDEN 2012 Conference: “Open learning generations”. Call for Papers open!
In times of great challenges for Europe, all generations are called to act together, thus also to learn, to produce, share and preserve knowledge. The 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and the Solidarity Between Generations serves as framework for raising awareness, generating innovative approaches and disseminating good practice.
The EDEN Annual Conference will approach the key questions of learning methodology and technology focusing on the “Open learning generations”, the contexts of socially significant target groups: junior and senior e-learners. We will explore their learning cultures, technology use patterns and discuss new approaches in pedagogy and andragogy that respond to them.
Open learning for and amongst diverse generations
Innovative pedagogical models have been significant in empowering learners and their communities as co-producers in networked lifelong learning. Helping to spread educational resources as digitised content which accommodate different learning pathways, widening participation and promoting shared learning experiences between generations contributes to closing the technology gap.
Online and Social
The 2012 Annual Conference will be supported and accompanied intensively by social networking, sharing, online and virtual presence and involvement possibilities.
This will be strengthened by and implemented through the EDEN Members Portal: the NAP area on the web and its services.
Call for Contributions
All interested professionals are invited to take part and discover the conference themes by submitting their experience.
There will be opportunities for submitting and presenting papers, workshops, posters and demonstrations. At the Porto conference, virtual presentations, as a new form will be introduced. The conference allows openness in choosing the topics and in applying interactive formats and ways of presentations.
To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages.
For details visit the Conference web-site and the Call for Contributions links.
Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submissions - 10 February, 2012
Registration Open - Mid February
Notification of Authors - 31 March
Bedsteforældre og børnebørn: En intergenerationel læreerfarings poetik
I vore dage er studerende 55 år og ældre nødt til at kæmpe med et totalt nyt panorama, hvor størstedelen af deres mentale referencer er blevet modificeret, omordnet eller er forsvundet. Samtidig møder de yngre generationer et vaklende samfund hvor det lader til at være meget svært at skabe en fornemmelse af at høre til i en speciel sammenhæng, en kendsgerning der har direkte konsekvenser for den historiske hukommelse og identitetsopbyggelsen.
Den følgende artikel præsentere nogle refleksioner over det foreløbige resultat af projektet, hvor der lægges vægt på dets bidrag til forbedringen af den intergenerationelle læreproces, specielt med hensyn til politisk dimension, roller og metodologi. Til sidst giver denne afhandling nogle anbefalinger, baseret på de tidligere resultater, ikke kun til forbedring af læreprocessen men også, og specielt, med ideen om at gøre en overførsel af en intergenerationel læremodel lettere.
Senior samfund, Læring og eLearning IKT
Generelt forbindes ældre menneskers motivation til at lære med at forbedre deres dagligdagsliv, med at holde dem selv i gang, med at dele deres viden med andre og med at komme i kontakt med andre elever. IKT kan hjælpe ved at tilbyde nye og fleksible læremuligheder, som sætter ældre mennesker i kontakt med hinanden og yngre generationer. For ældre mennesker tager læring som regel sted i uformelle omgivelser, hellere end i formel undervisning, og den drives af deres egne interesser og behov, mere end af formelle krav.
Det er vigtigt omhyggeligt at udvikle både indholdet og vilkårene for læremuligheder for ældre mennesker. Der er bevis for at ældre mennesker ønsker at lære men at det i øjeblikket er knapt med meningsfulde og reelle muligheder for denne ønskede læring. Det er nødvendigt at koncentrere sig mere om at udvikle relevante og tilgængelige læremuligheder og mere brugervenlige redskaber tilpasset ældre mennesker. At støtte muligheder centreret i eleven og personlige lærefærdigheder bliver hver dag en del af livslang læring for alle i vidensamfundet, hvor ældre mennesker er én gruppe elever og mentorer, som påvirker hinanden og integreres med andre.
Hele læringens rolle befinder sig i en ændringsproces samtidig med at en ny bølge af lovende IKT anvendelser står til rådighed og der er behov for forskning for at beslutte hvorledes læring bedst kan støttes og tilbydes de ældre i samfundet.
Denne artikel udgives i EuroPACE udgivelsen ”European Networking and Learning for the Future. The EuroPACE approach” af Annemie Boonen og WimVan Petegem (eds.), Garant, Antwerpen, November 2007.