30 Apr 2008.
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Aina Chabert, Researcher in “Innovation of training methodologies by means of ICT and Social Technologies” , SCIENTER
The article presents results and recommendations from a Grandparents & Grandsons project, financed under the European Commission’s eLearning programme.
The project has investigated intergenerational learning and how it can promote the exchange of approaches between older and younger students, enriching the needs of each collective. Through the involvement of vocational training students and upper secondary schools in the role of volunteer “digital facilitators”, the project intends to teach internet browsing and e-mail use to the elders, fostering thus their active digital citizenship role.
Nowadays, learners over 55 years old have to fight with a total new panorama, where most of their mental references have been modified, recomposed or disappeared. At the same time, the young generations encounter a fickle society, where it seems very difficult to establish a sense of belonging on a particular context, a fact that has direct consequences on the historical memory and the identity construction.
The following article presents a set of reflections across the preliminary outcomes of the project, emphasising its contribution to the improvement of the intergenerational learning process, particularly in terms of political dimension, roles and methodology. Finally, this paper proposes some recommendations, based on the previous results, not only for the improvement of the learning process but also, and especially, with the idea of facilitating an intergenerational learning model transfer.