This blog post, which is written by Libby Lee-Hammond and Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett, researchers at Murdoch University, in Western Australia, describes a project in Western Australia where young Australian Aboriginal children learn with the elders in their community.
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by Margaret Kernan, ICDI
This month’s edition of Scientific American highlights the dramatic increase in near-sightedness or myopia. By 2050 almost half the world will be near-sighted and will require some sort of corrective lens. >> Read more
by Alba Mònica Royes Corbalán, Municipality of Lleida
The Educational Department of the City of Lleida have been implementing the European project “TOY-Together Old and Young” since 2012. TOY promotes the interaction between children and elderly people in fun and motivating activities.
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In February 2016 I gave a keynote address about the opportunities provided by intergenerational learning for young children and older people at the British Early Childhood Research Association Annual Conference.