Moving Stories and Generations
"Moving stories and
Generations" targets senior citizens, children and young people focussing on
inter-generational aspects.
Designed by project partners from Germany and Italy for a media education project with different generations, the course deals
with intergenerational communication and media training. The focus is on
play and games, then and now. Senior citizens and children/young adults
visit their favourite places, interview each other in turn and produce an
audio guide, which takes the listener directly to the actual venues.
Get
impressions of the audio tours
that were
produced within the Crosstalk project:
Freiburg-Ebnet, Germany: GE,
EN / Freiburg- St.Georgen, Germany:
GE / Castelluccio Valmagiorre,
Italy: IT
Aims of the course:
• Young and elderly people
who live together closely - in one district, village or small town - but
often rarely communicate with each other, come into contact and exchange
stories.
The course provides senior citizens, children, and young people with the desire,
self-confidence, and necessary expertise to make an active contribution to
their own community and the local media through their stories.
• The handbook gives different examples and course schedules. Whether you work in
youth centres or want to do the project with school children (within the
school curriculum or after school) or if you work in a home for elderly
people and are interested in the idea – you’ll get inspired and find out how
to do this course.
"I liked especially, that
the prejudices have been reduced or corrected.
For example: ‘Children only
sit in front of the computer’. And now we heard from them, that they play
pretty crazy things, nice things and exciting things. And the
children got to know from their elders that they used to play, too." (one
senior participant who took part at the pilot course in Freiburg-Ebnet/Germany
in 2009)
course materials for
download.
