Knowledge Integration in Students After Transdisciplinary Communication with the Oldest Old
Sonja Ehret
How do students integrate their cognitive insights gained from dialogues with the oldest old persons? The lecture provides insight into an exploratory evaluation of self-reflexions written by students, which they prepared after an intergenerational seminar. The acquisition of the experience and world view of the oldest old and the strategies of adopting perspectives play a central role. In all reflexions, the experience of the old dialogue partner is consistently addressed. Students also wrote about the process of integrating new knowledge. We can interpret it as a form of development of consciousness where spontaneity in dialogue, well-known as positive feedback, plays a central role. Full Text
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