Oltre le età: prospettive di sviluppo del potenziale formativo degli anziani.

The research project, which is quantitative and qualitative in nature, belongs to the field of Educational Sciences and explores the effects of intergenerational experiences, like care, reciprocity and gift on adolescents and older adults. After an historical and anthropological analysis of Literature, Philosophy, History of Art and Advertising about stereotypes on aging, Neurosciences and Psychopedagogy have been applied to underline elderly people talents. Taking into consideration the “state of the art” of researches on intergenerational practices, policies, programmes and initiatives in Europe and Worldwide, an experiment of intergenerational relationship has been accomplished by adopting narration as an hermeneutical, epistemical and relational approach. Such an experiment, which can be applied to different contexts, has modified a lot of stereotypes on aging, moreover it has developed educational and generative potential of older adults and relational skills of adolescents.