Generational Intelligence: A Critical Approach to Age RelationsThe question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence as one way of addressing these issues. How easy is it to put yourself in the shoes of someone of a different age group? What are the personal, interpersonal and social factors that affect our perceptions of the ‘age other’? What are the key issues facing families, workplaces and communities in an ageing society? This book sets out a way of thinking about interpersonal relations based on age, and the question of communication between people of different ages and generations. The book challenges existing orthodoxies for relations between adults of different ages and draws out steps that can be taken to increase understanding between generational groups. The authors outline a series of steps that can be taken to enhance Generational Intelligence, examine existing theories and social issues, and suggest new directions for sustainable relations between generational groups. |
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Contents
1 What is Generational Intelligence? | 1 |
2 Self and the generational
imagination | 19 |
3 Developing generational
awareness | 28 |
4 Self and other | 41 |
5 Generational strategies and negotiation | 56 |
6 Generations and family | 67 |
The family and the state | 84 |
8 Generational Intelligence and elder mistreatment | 96 |
9 Workplace and intergenerational
relations | 110 |
10 Intergenerational relations in the community | 127 |
Toward sustainable intergenerational
relationships | 142 |
151 | |
177 | |
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Generational Intelligence: A Critical Approach to Age Relations Simon Biggs,Ariela Lowenstein Limited preview - 2013 |
Generational Intelligence: A Critical Approach to Age Relations Simon J. Biggs,Ariela Lowenstein No preview available - 2011 |
Generational Intelligence: A Critical Approach to Age Relations Simon Biggs,Ariela Lowenstein No preview available - 2011 |