Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs
The research reported in this paper examines how two different groups, primary schoolchildren and elderly people, could close the generation gap through a digital storytelling-based interaction framework that can result in learning for the younger and intergenerational communication. Yesteryear jobs...
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| author | Mouchtari Efthalia Meimaris Michalis Gouscos Dimitris Sfyroera Maria |
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| description | The research reported in this paper examines how two different groups, primary schoolchildren and elderly people, could close the generation gap through a digital storytelling-based interaction framework that can result in learning for the younger and intergenerational communication. Yesteryear jobs have been chosen as the theme of this research, based on the premise that, as computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions become extinct, and some of these endangered professions, from a milkman to an iceman, could become better known to primary school children through storytelling from elderly people. In this respect, the research reported in this paper has combined digital storytelling with techniques as traditional as theatrical games, in order to create a blended framework for intergenerational interactions. The research project was realized in the 15th Primary School of Piraeus, in Athens, Greece during academic years 2011-12 and 2012-13. It has involved a 6-month empirical study and embraced skills such as literature reading, story and song listening, painting, creating digital stories as well as improvising through theatrical games. The evaluation tools for the outcomes of this project comprised a questionnaire, participant observation, informal interviews and a video rubric for evaluating the digital creations of schoolchildren. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7bccaef7b49e4bf0920df25da347e7232025-02-10T13:26:38ZengSciendoCultural Science1836-04162015-10-0182637710.5334/csci.8282Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear JobsMouchtari Efthalia0Meimaris Michalis1Gouscos Dimitris2Sfyroera Maria3University of Athens, Athens, GreeceUniversity of Athens, Athens, GreeceUniversity of Athens, Athens, GreeceUniversity of Athens, Athens, GreeceThe research reported in this paper examines how two different groups, primary schoolchildren and elderly people, could close the generation gap through a digital storytelling-based interaction framework that can result in learning for the younger and intergenerational communication. Yesteryear jobs have been chosen as the theme of this research, based on the premise that, as computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions become extinct, and some of these endangered professions, from a milkman to an iceman, could become better known to primary school children through storytelling from elderly people. In this respect, the research reported in this paper has combined digital storytelling with techniques as traditional as theatrical games, in order to create a blended framework for intergenerational interactions. The research project was realized in the 15th Primary School of Piraeus, in Athens, Greece during academic years 2011-12 and 2012-13. It has involved a 6-month empirical study and embraced skills such as literature reading, story and song listening, painting, creating digital stories as well as improvising through theatrical games. The evaluation tools for the outcomes of this project comprised a questionnaire, participant observation, informal interviews and a video rubric for evaluating the digital creations of schoolchildren.https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.82digital storytellingtheatrical gamesprimary schoolactive ageingintergenerational communicationintergenerational literacy |
| spellingShingle | Mouchtari Efthalia Meimaris Michalis Gouscos Dimitris Sfyroera Maria Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs Cultural Science digital storytelling theatrical games primary school active ageing intergenerational communication intergenerational literacy |
| title | Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs |
| title_full | Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs |
| title_fullStr | Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs |
| title_short | Learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school: Yesteryear Jobs |
| title_sort | learning and intergenerational communication through digital storytelling in the first grades of primary school yesteryear jobs |
| topic | digital storytelling theatrical games primary school active ageing intergenerational communication intergenerational literacy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.82 |
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