Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Laney, James D
• Wimsatt, T. Joy
• Moseley, Patricia A
• Laney, Jo Lynn

Titel

CHILDREN'S IDEAS ABOUT AGING BEFORE AND AFTER AN INTEGRATED UNIT OF INSTRUCTION

Ist Teil von

• Educational gerontology, 1999-09, Vol.25 (6), p.531-547

Ort / Verlag

Informa UK Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The problem of this study was to explore first and second-graders' ideas about aging before and after an integrated unit of instruction. Twenty students in one combination first and second-grade classroom participated in a six-week interdisciplinary unit on aging, featuring intergenerational activities and relatively non ageist children's literature. The children were pretested and posttested using an informal, whole-class word-association task, projective drawings, and attitude-toward-aging interview. By the end of the unit, they were more likely to have accurate conceptions of and positive attitudes toward aging.