EVALUATION OF AN INTERGENERATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Authors
BRINGLE RG KREMER JF
Citation
Rg. Bringle et Jf. Kremer, EVALUATION OF AN INTERGENERATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT FOR UNDERGRADUATES, Educational gerontology, 19(5), 1993, pp. 407-416
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research","Geiatric & Gerontology
Journal title
Educational gerontology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03601277
Volume
19
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
407 - 416
Database
ISI
SICI code
0360-1277(1993)19:5<407:EOAISP>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
An appropriate objective within a liberal arts approach to education i s enhancing students' awareness of attitudes toward their own aging. A combined intervention of intergenerational experience and didactic in struction had a favorable effect on students' attitudes toward older a dults in general and on students' view of their own later lives. Addit ional positive consequences are discussed, and suggestions for running similar curricular components are presented.