District: No. 6 (Rocky Mountain)
Educators in numerous schools in the communities of Golden and Invermere investigate intergenerational learning to understand its benefits to participants, challenges for educators, related/emergent pedagogies and curricula and, by contrast, the norms of monogenerational learning sites in terms of new possibilities.
These images are from the Intergenerational Learning project in SD #6 (Rocky Mountain), where educators in numerous schools in the communities of Golden and Invermere investigate intergenerational learning to understand its benefits to participants, challenges for educators, related/emergent pedagogies and curricula and, by contrast, the norms of monogenerational learning sites in terms of new possibilities – and don’t miss thereafter some recent images from a similar program in Kimberley, B.C.
Project edublog.
The children have coat hooks and space for their things:
…as well as a huge storage room:
More of children and residents:
In a kindred project of similar inspiration, 2 groups of kindergarten students from Marysville Elementary in Kimberley, B.C. have been visiting Garden View Village seniors’ home every other week through the fall of 2013. Here are some of the images they have kindly shared with us from their program, which they report to be going very well:
