Older adults in the children´s school. An intergenerational reflexive experience

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to highlight the benefits of intergenerational education, fostered among older adults and boys and girls of initial education in the generation of satisfaction around the generation of social skills of coexistence beyond curricular prescriptions. The methodical consisted of a quantitative section that described the satisfaction of 8 teachers and auxiliaries, 30 fathers and mothers of the Educational Complex "Monsignor Luis Eduardo Henríquez" and 18 older adults of the Recreational Center of the Elderly "Juan Pablo II, Valencia, state Carabobo, Venezuela, selected by intentional sampling, to which a survey was applied and in the qualitative field an interview with 15 children of the center, After the analysis and discussion of results it was concluded that there is satisfaction among the actors around the indicators of intergenerational education, planning and personal development should be strengthened in the medium and long term with the participation of all the actors involved to achieve emphasis on the 3 emerging categories: the participatory horizon, the encounter with the other and the senses of the other in us .