Intergenerational Programs: Understanding What We Have Created
focuses on research efforts to design, improve, and evaluate
activities among younger and older individuals while examining how
intergenerational activities impact children, families, and older
adult participants. The first single volume to reflect the current
state of research knowledge in this area, this vital guide provides
practitioners, program developers, researchers, and students with
case studies, research findings, and models and examples of
productive activities. It will help you guide short- and long-term
program development, document activity effectiveness, and ensure
program survival during fiscal hardships to give participants
constructive and positive experiences. Discussing the opportunity
to transfer experience and knowledge of older persons in our
society to future generations, Intergenerational Programs:
Understanding What We Have Created examines the challenges that may
arise in providing meaningful activities for younger and older
persons. This helpful book explores research methods, such as
qualitative approaches with large, national data sets;
observations; program histories; and qualitative analyses of
interviews with small numbers of program participants to help you
create appropriate activities and foster interdependence between
these two age groups. Intergenerational Programs: Understanding
What We Have Created will help you research programs and produce
successful activity outcomes with such techniques as: using an
ethnographic approach, involving a holistic perspective and using
field-based data collection methods, to meet the challenges of
creating programs among two different age groups and the social
problems each group faces using constructivist and sociocultural
orientations, which are traditionally applied to a "classroom
learning," to offer new ways of viewing and assessing learning in
community-based programs understanding the positive effects
grandparents can have on their grandchildren, including helping
parents resolve children's behavioral problems and assisting in
providing positive environments incorporating knowledge of drug
abuse issues, problem-solving skills, feelings of self-worth, and
academic goals into programs to benefit youths developing
elder-care services in conjunction with businesses to improve the
quality of life for the elderly and the workers, as well as
decreasing workers'absenteeism, mistakes, and time used to make
personal calls to elderly relatives who need careComprehensive and
intelligent, this current book contains studies and research that
explore the negative and positive aspects of certain activities,
allowing you to learn from the experiences of others. This book
provides research methods and evaluation measures to help you
decide what kinds of activities are needed in order to best benefit
participants. As a result, you will be able to create relevant
programs, assess their effectiveness, and help join different
generations in working together for an improved quality of life for
all group members.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2000 |
First published: |
1999 |
Authors: |
Valerie Kuehne
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Dimensions: |
216 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
244 |
Edition: |
Revised |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7890-0782-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
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LSN: |
0-7890-0782-7 |
Barcode: |
9780789007827 |
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