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Entries by Claudia Azevedo
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Intergenerational social experiences on TV
Inspired by a TV show broadcast in the UK - “Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds” - Spain broadcasters have followed suit in making use of TV to disseminate good practices for inter...
Can a machine error foster intergenerational connectivity?
At 106 years old and despite having already gone through primary school–as well as a career as a teacher and fifty years of retirement – Ingrid Sandberg got an official l...
Sustainable intergenerational programmes: training opportunities for professionals
It was in the United States during the 1960s that intergenerational programmes - "initiatives or programmes that increased cooperation, interaction and intergenerational exchange" - first...
From intergenerational programmes in schools to intergenerational schools
Most of the contemporary literature in the intergenerational field falls into two broads categories: there are studies that have explored the nature of Intergenerational Programmes (IPs) and studie...
All human beings are intergenerational
In a society that focuses on individual needs and rights, the notion that intergenerational relationships underpin all human beings is challenging. Intergenerationality does not erase or diminish o...
Why do some intergenerational programmes seem sustainable while others do not?
When policy-makers give their views on the sustainability of intergenerational programmes’, they often emphasise the responsibility of societies, institutions and people in general to promote...
How to take advantage of existing city parks’ infrastructure to promote intergenerational programmes?
Increased longevity has provided many opportunities for different generations to come together. Creating environments for harnessing the wisdom and experiences from these multiple generations can s...
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Can polygamy be merged with modern British values?
The starting point for this post was the Seminar ‘Marrying out’ for love: women’s narratives of polygyny and alternative marriage choices in contemporary Senegal’. Pol...