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Intergenerational learning in Stockholm County in Sweden
— a practical example of elderly men working in compulsory schools as a benefit for children | | Author(s) | Ann-Kristin Böström |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 1, no 4, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 7-24 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Children ; Grandfathers ; Older men ; Social interaction ; Schools ; Curricula ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | A practical implementation of strategies for augmenting social capital as used in the Granddad Project, an intergenerational learning initiative conducted in schools in Stockholm county, Sweden, is investigated. Indicators for measuring social capital were constructed on the basis of questionnaire data. Responses from a total of 580 pupils, 19 grandfathers and 27 teachers in 17 schools were collected. Additionally, for the grandfathers, a qualitative analysis was also carried out using a set of narrative data, reflecting their perceptions and experiences of their work in the schools. The results indicate that the grandfathers' work itself is forming part of the social capital between individual grandfathers and the pupils. Pupil responses indicate that boys and girls feel secure in schools, and that the grandfather supports and assists everyone. The grandfathers' responses demonstrate that they find their work demanding, but nonetheless rewarding because of the social network it has established for them with the staff and the positive response from the pupils. These results support the assumption that interaction that occurs in the the classrooms in schools where there is grandfather intervention provides opportunities for increased social capital to be generated on the part of both the younger and older generation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061006006 A |
| Classmark | SBC: SW3: BC: TMA: V3: V9C: 76P |
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