Z WARSZTATÓW BADAWCZYCH
Good practices
in the intergenerational activities on the basis of the experience gathered during
conducting the project “Seniors in action”
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Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych
koordynator programu „Seniorzy w akcji”
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Instytut Socjologii
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Publication date: 2020-06-08
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2012;17:167-181
ABSTRACT
The article presents the experience gained while conducting the Polish nationwide
grant contest “Seniors in action” carried out by the Association of the Creative Initiatives
“ę”, which tries to respond to new challenges arising from the low social activity of elder
people, growing generation gap and old-age stereotypes. The challenges are particularly
crucial considering the progressive process in aging of the Polish society. A significant
issue of the program “Seniors in action” is the idea of intergenerationality which is
implemented on the project management level (pairs of cultural operators representing
different generations) as well as on the level of activities addressed to a local society
including people of different ages. For years we can observe a very dynamic and systematic
development of intergenerational activities in the United States and in the countries
of Western Europe. Noticing and appreciation of these activities is strongly related to
the necessity to create cohesive and integrated local societies responding to needs of
various groups as well as fully benefiting from the opportunities they offer. In Poland we
are just gaining experience and working out as well as testing the methods tailored to
the Polish realities. On the basis of assessment results of three editions of the program
we distinguished four types of the most frequent relationships between generations:
unidirectional intergenerationality, bidirectional intergenerationality based on the common
activities or hobbies, traditional intergenerationality (acting as a granny or grandady)
referring to traditional roles of elderly people and intergenerationality focused on gaining
new skills, transfer of knowledge and mutual learning from each other. Moreover, the
article presents persons of the senior as well as junior cultural operators who set up their
own social projects and suggestions that will be useful for developing intergenerational
activities and supporting seniors action.
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