Employing an Intergenerational Program to Enhance the Closeness Between Grandparents and Grandchildren:an Action Research

• Main Authors: Wang,Yeh-Fen, 王燕芬
• Other Authors: Wu,Li-Juing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85740804882729468013

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 生命教育教學碩士學位班 === 103 === The purpose of this action research is to develop an intergenerational program in order to enhance the closeness between grandparents and grandchildren. The participants are 27 pupils from the class of the researcher, and also one of the grandparents of each pupil. Intergenerational program is conducted in the way of integrated activities to fulfill the spirit of experiential learning – Education as life, life as education. The research conducted a questionnaire of the closeness between grandparents and grandchildren as pre-test and post-test, in order to understand the degree of change of the closeness between grandparents and grandchildren after the implementation of this program. Through seven units of intergenerational program in 16 weeks, researcher collected documents such as work sheets, teaching log. In addition to document analysis, interviewing and daily observation have been carried out. Results of this research are as follows: 1. Through the implementation of this program the mutual understanding and transmition of mutual concern and love between grandchildren and grandparents have been promoted. 2. Through the questionnaire of intimacy between grandchildren and grandparents, it has been proved that the intimacy between grandchildren and grandparents has been improved 3. The more the grandparents are willing to involve in intergenerational activities the better the grandchildren are willing to interact with their grandparents Recommendations have been constructed at the end of this research.