21. Intergenerational Learning

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. 

Two children sitting with an elderly woman at a table.

People of all ages sitting in a classroom.
Children sitting infront of a woman who  is talking.
Children sitting infront of a woman who  is talking.

Project edublog.

Name tag on the door art
DoorArt stuck on a wall
Door art displayed on a wall

The children have coat hooks and space for their things:

Door hooks

…as well as a huge storage room:

Storage room

More of children and residents:

Young boy and elderly woman working together
Young boy and elderly woman working together at a table
Young boy and elderly man working together at a table
Girl and elderly woman working together at a table
Children at a table being observed by 3 women
Children working at a table being observed by an elderly woman

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:

Two girls sitting with an elderly woman at a table.
Children watching a presentation given by older women
Children sitting on the floor in a room decorated with snowmen and snowflakes.
Three children sitting with an elderly woman at a table.