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Intergenerational Education: The significance of 'reciprocity' and 'place'

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Mannion G (2012) Intergenerational Education: The significance of 'reciprocity' and 'place'. Journal of Intergenerational Relations, 10 (4), pp. 386-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2012.726601

Abstract
In this article, the case is made for greater clarity in the definition of intergenerational practice and intergenerational education. Theoretically, the effects of all-age reciprocity and the significance of attending to 'place' are explored. Taken together, they help point to what is distinctive about the scope and purpose of intergenerational education. The author argues that any intergenerational practice must always involve an educative element that is focused, at least in part, on the on-going reciprocal production of new relations between generations through the way challenges are purposefully responded to in some specific place.

Keywords
Intergenerational practice; intergenerational education; reciprocity;reciprocal; learning; place; relations

Journal
Journal of Intergenerational Relations: Volume 10, Issue 4

StatusPublished
FundersScotlands Commissioner For Children & Young People
Publication date31/12/2012
Date accepted by journal07/03/2012
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/10075
PublisherTaylor and Francis
ISSN1535-0770

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Professor Gregory Mannion

Professor Gregory Mannion

Professor, Education

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