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Learning neighbourhoods: intergenerational learning, exchange and respectful community building
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2025-09-02
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Ó Tuama, Séamus
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Cork City (Ireland) Learning Neighbourhoods places a particular emphasis on how neighbourhood level intergenerational learning can have wider community benefits. Two projects in the Ballyphehane neighbourhood, which has one of the oldest age profiles of any community in Ireland, offer useful insights into positive outcomes for older adults and teenagers. Learning Neighbourhoods, developed under the aegis of Cork Learning City, aims at creating a community level model to generate sustainable, flourishing, inclusive, learning. Promoting a culture of intergenerational exchange enables opportunities for mutual learning and mutual recognition across all neighbourhood age groups within and across neighbourhoods. Intergenerational exchange directly benefits the individual older adults that engage, it also has benefits for older adults as a community within a neighbourhood, but other generations also gain from these types of exchange.
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Cork City (Ireland) Learning Neighbourhoods , Neighbourhood level intergenerational learning , Community benefits , Ballyphehane , Cork Learning City
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Ó Tuama, S. (2025) 'Learning neighbourhoods: intergenerational learning, exchange and respectful community building', in Ó Tuama, S., Agbessi, E. and Neylon, T. (eds.) Global Perspectives on Learning Cities. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91110-1_13
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© 2025, the Editors and Authors under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Ó Tuama, S. (2025) 'Learning neighbourhoods: intergenerational learning, exchange and respectful community building', in Ó Tuama, S., Agbessi, E. and Neylon, T. (eds.) Global Perspectives on Learning Cities. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 153-171. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91110-1_13