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| Perceived benefits of intergenerational tutoring | | Author(s) | Susan Kinnevy, Nancy Morrow-Howell |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 20, no 2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 3-18 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Schools ; Older people ; Children ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The benefits of an intergenerational tutoring programme, in which older volunteers worked one-to-one with children aged 5 to 9 years to improve their reading skills were examined in a programme evaluation of a national non-profit organisation. A total of 97 older adults provided their perspectives on the extent to which participation in intergenerational tutoring benefited them in four areas: socialisation, generativity, well-being, and opportunity. Survey results indicated that older persons felt that they benefited from their participation in intergenerational tutoring. Participants perceived the most benefit in the domain of well-being and almost as much benefit in the domain of generativity, followed by opportunity and socialisation. When asked what was most beneficial about participation, most respondents mentioned interacting with new people. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000229222 A |
| Classmark | GHH: V3: B: SBC: 7T |
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