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Learning at the ends of life : children, elders, and literacies in intergenerational curricula
—Heydon, Rachel, 1971-
2013

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"Intergenerational learning programs bring together skipped generations (for instance, elders and young children) to promote expansive communication and identity options for participants, as well as the forging of relationships between generations. More specifically, these programs help foster multimodal literacy for both generations, encouraging new ways of seeing oneself and the world. Learning at the Ends of Life illustrates the unique benefits of these trail-blazing programs through more than seven years of research on developing and implementing intergenerational curricula in Canada and the United States.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781442645370
  • 9781442613478
  • 1442645377
  • 1442613475

Description: xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.

Contents:

  • Introduction to intergenerational learning programs
  • Who can say what is in my heart? : illustrations of what intergenerational learning programs have meant to their participants
  • Cases of the building and maintaining of intergenerational shared-site programs
  • Literacy learning opportunities in intergenerational curricula
  • Opportunities created by a semiotic chain in an intergenerational art curriculum
  • Living, death, and dying in intergenerational learning programs
  • The lessons of intergenerational learning curricula.

LCCN: 2014397578

Control Number: 1155576

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University Of Toronto Press, [2013]
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