How to learn a Rolling Stone playing a nintendo game

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How to learn a Rolling Stone playing a nintendo
game?

• Intergenerational learning as instrument to
  strengthen a democratic civil society

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Content

• Civil society (11 slides)
• IP intergenerational programmes ( 7 slides)
• What's behind IP (10 slides)
• Obstacles for IP (4 slides)
• Five examples of different integral methods (10
  slides)
• The way to a European network (12 slides)

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LLL as the key to social inclusion

• It is modern to show Europe as a society for it
  citizens
• But the model of the civil society seems not
  always to be what politicians and policy makers
  wanted it to be

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Ongoing societal changes

• Globalisation and individualisation
• the do-it-your-self biography monitored by
  Heineken and McDonalds
• From family-based economy into real business
• from rural economy into industralisation, from
  the industrialisation into the service economy
  and from services into the knowledge society
• From country-based into modern city - based
• increasing urbanisation - need for new jobs -
  need for safety and security - need for
  protection - need for sustainability - need for
  new walls

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Good old Europe..

• Growing interest in integral policy
• Intercultural and intergenerational dimensions
• Rising stars departments and policies for family
  planning
• Restriction of immigration
• Tension between national and European policy

Intergenerational contact Reconstruction what
once had been destructed
Rejection of the constitution
Enlarged EU from 15 to 25
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The civil society

• is a concept of European politicians and
  policymakers
• Strengthening the need for an integral approach
  of social problems and knowledge transfer by
  active citizenship
• Critisizing and cutting budgets in the public
  sector, existing social cultural work and
  voluntary organisations
• Addressing citizens to take their own
  responsability and undertake own voluntary aid
  and work

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The double character of the civil society
The ugly side
The good side .
Bedrijfsleven - Maatschappelijk Verantwoord
Ondernemen
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• Active citizenship is a phenomenon challenging
  the education for adults to support and to foster
  active citizens
• Democratic citizenship is still an important term
  while democracy is in many countries still rather
  new
• Lifelong learning is the key to social inclusion

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Problems in the civil society

• Some examples

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Innocent pastime or troubles making?
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Inconvenience by drug abuse
No deals with dealers!
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Safe learning environment?
You are much more than a number.
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uniting generations to
build a better world

• is essential for a civil society

From generation to generation is the rolling
stone which we should not forget and
neglect, talking and walking together is the
nintendo game which we have to play
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IP Intergenerational
Programmes

• intergenerational contact
• intergenerational communication
• intergenerational learning

• how grandpa teach Lisa in dancing tango
• how a Rolling Stone learns to play nintendo

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Three relationships behind IP

• Young for old
• Old for young
• Young and old together

Original US-model focus on relationships
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Three basic activities in IP

• Coping with intergenerational conflicts
• Together looking after joint interests of young
  and old
• Mutual support and services

EU-model focus on activities
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Three achievement levels of IP

• To meet each other
• To get acquainted with each other
• To influence each other

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Most popular fields of IP

• Public space young and old meet in the
  neighbourhood where they both live
• Education and child care older adults active as
  helpers and mentors
• Living, care and wellbeing young and old enjoy
  mutual contact

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Project presentations

• KoJaLa Markus Marquard, ZAWIW
• Ge-Mit Christian Wienberg, FSJ BAGS
• EFI Silke Brauer, IBAS
• NIGEL Iris Mareel, Projektburo Dialog der
  Generationen
• LACE Silke Brauer, IBAS und Mariano Sanchez,
  University of Granada

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Whats behind IP?
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Basically

Creation of Youthland (1900)
Only adults
The powerful in between (since1997)
Creation of Elderlyland (1945)
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Talkin bout my generation

• It starts with

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Biographical learning
We are What we have been What we have done What
has happened to us What has happened to
what we
have done and what we have done with what has
happened to us (C.Verhoeven, Dutch philosopher)
Each generation can tell its own story with a
shade of meaning
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What does it mean, being absolutely modern, when
you are not so young anymore and when your
daughter is complete different from what you have
been in younger days?
(Kundera)
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It is a hard when youngsters leave the
villagepeople disappearand history fades away
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Identifying Generation Specific Experiences
BIRTH COHORT HOLLAND RUSSIA   1900
1910 Fear and fortune
Revolution   1910 1920 Crisis
Agricultural Reform   1920 1930 War
Stalin   1930 1940 Helicopter
War   1940-1950 Jeans
Chroetsjov   1950 1960 Post-patriarchal
Cold war   1960 1970 Computer
Dissidents   1970 1980 Walkman
Perestroika   1980-1990 Nintendo
Post-sovjet
Babyboom
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Generations limited in time and
spaceGeneration specific learning chrystalized
intelligence
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The babyboomers old protest, broken dreams, new
resistance, fear for revenge?
This generation (1940-1950) is in the powerful
position, to dominate the direction in which the
transformation from a trhee-generation- into a
multi-generational society
In politics it are the Clintons, the Blairs, and
the Schröders
This transformation is characterised by
neglecting ageing and staying young and vital
forever
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ICIPinternational consortium for
intergenerational programmes

• Exchange of experiences, studies and research
• Biennial conferences
• Newsletter

• 2002 Connecting Generations - a global
  perspective
• Keele, UK

• 2004 Global challenges - future
  directions
• Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• 2006 Connecting intergenerational communities
  through creative exchange
• Melbourne Victoria, Australia

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IP discipline or approach

• We should reflect IP as an approach (EU-model)
  and not as a concrete discipline (US-model).
• It is very important to develop objective
  methodology to make IP more practical and useful
• (Narender Chaddha, chair ICIP)

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Coping with modernity

• In Bulgarya grandparents learn English language
  while
• grandchildren are crossing
  the world
• In several other countries
• youngsters help older adults managing the
  computer

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Coping with modernity

• Youngsters experience that they have also the
  competence to teach, to help and to support older
  people

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Joint activities

• In Cyprus schools are inviting weekly elderly to
  play, to tell stories, to sing and to dance
  together with the children

In this way folk art and traditions keep
conserved and continued
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The Netherlands

• Neighbourhood for all ages (national stimulation
  plan)
• City for all ages (policy)
• Neighbourhood full stories (reminiscence)
• Darlings / Treasures in the neighbourhood
  (kindergarten-school)
• Generations in conflict (coping with conflicts)
• Generations on the move (community development)

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Dutch material
video
video
video
Photo-folder
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PEFETE

• Pan-European Forum for Education of The Elderly /
  a Grundtvig 4 network

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The Grundtvig Family
NIGEL
European Commission Socrates Programme
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PEFETE a good mix

• Representatives from 17 countries
• 7 organisations of general adult education
• 3 private companies in lifelong leanring
• 5 organisations specifically focused on older
  adults/ senior citizens
• 2 research organisations

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Working in quartets and a quintet
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The Dual Role of Grundtvig Networks
Political Instrument
Public Authorities, Private Sector, Civil
Society, Media
Grundtvig Actors Adult Educ. Sector
Cooperation Instrument
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Outputs of PEFETE

• workshop "Basic Principles of Senior Citizens'
  Education" 2004
• workshop "Interactive Learning" 2005
• workshop ''Train-the-Trainer" (Grundtvig 3) 2006

• publication ''Actual Trends in Senior Citizens
  Education" 2004
• publication "Involving Senior Citizens
  Initiatives in Learning " 2005
• publication "Learning EU Partnerships" 2006

• an informative and interactive website with the
  possibilitity to transform in a virtual community
  2005
• all publications will be available on the web
  

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senior citizens education
Boston Consultancy Group Matrix
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Thanks to
j.klercq_at_odyssee-groep.nl

• Odyssee, Dutch organisation for Education and
  Training
• EU, Socrates Programme DG Education and
  Training
• PEFETE, Grundtvig 4 network
• EAEA, Eur. Association for Education of Adults
• ICIP, international NGO