You Don't Have To Be My Grandparent To Be My Good Friend [microform] / Winifred G. McDuffie
- Bib ID:
- 5386608
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- McDuffie, Winifred G
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1979
- 12 p.
- Summary:
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A project was developed to combat the negative stereotypes of ageism, and to provide positive role models of older adults for young children. Funded with a grant of $750, an Intergenerational Teaching Resource Center was established. Two major Center activities were (1) the selection, purchase, and organization into a lending program of 65 books for young children, which portray older adults in non-stereotyped roles; and (2) the development of a program in which older adults served as volunteer resource persons in early childhood classrooms and young children visited the elderly in nursing and retirement homes. A third related aspect of the project was the development of a file of community older adults who were willing to serve as early childhood program resources. This project has taught its initiators that recruitment, orientation, and on-going liaison with volunteers are extremely time-consuming operations. Two successful aspects of the project were: (1) several elderly men and women effectively conducted classroom activities and worked at publicity booth displays; and (2) carefully prepared children visited hospitalized elderly persons on a continuing, biweekly basis. Recommendations for replicating the project are included. (Author/RH)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 1979).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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