Of course, they can't multiply. Each of these vignettes reveals people struggling to communicate across generations. Each vignette represents at least three generational views. People from each generation bring their values to the classroom in the first vignette, and to the luncheon in the second. We will look at these five major generational types and work in groups to discover how they are different, why they are different, and how that could affect our ability to communicate in Intergenerational Service Learning Projects.
Excellent projects build communication between the generations.
To model asking people of other generations for the impact of historical events in their lives. Your mission in the next fifteen minutes is to talk with seven different people in this room today, one for each decade listed. Talking through the '20s is another option. Now, it is possible that in this room there is someone who broke their leg in the '60s and the career as an ice skater ended. Now that is a very big person event with a huge impact, but it is not a historical event that had an impact on a whole generation of people.