Intergenerational learning through creative methods: The Romanian perspective

Abstract

The ALICE project was implemented in Romania by the Romanian Society for Lifelong Learning which selected trainers from different parts of the country to participate at the intial online training for trainers. The aim of the adult trainings later organized by SREP was to instil a greater interest in reading and storytelling and provide older adults with an educational alternative for how they can spend
their leisure time with their children/grandchildren.
In our organization’s daily work in the educational projects we implement, we meet young people who express themselves very difficult and have serious problems in correctly speaking and writing. In the same time, rupture between generations is also very high, many young people do not communicate with parents,
and parents spend less time with their children. Also new technologies make the gap between generations even bigger. The idea of learning from each other through new technologies emerged also from the implementation of projects by our organization which addressed both parental education, and family
learning, projects that have a real interest among adults and children.