Ayudantes Alumnos en la Extensión: agencia e intercambio intergeneracional

Abstract

This report/account of an experience presents a series of reflections based on my role as Student Assistant in the Workshop "New Communication and Information Technologies" (2020) within the framework of the Senior Adults Program of the Outreach Secretariat of National University of Córdoba. During the year 2020, the workshops of the Older Adults Program of the Extension Secretariat (UNC) involved the adaptation of the workshops to virtual modality. To this end, the Program implemented the figure of the Student Assistant in the proposals to the community. After my participation as a Student Assistant in this programme, I intend to evaluate the impact of this measure, observing that the role made it possible to reduce the dropout rate of the participants. My reading hypothesis after having gone through this experience is that the role of student assistants opens up two possibilities in the work spaces with Older Adults: a) an intergenerational exchange, and b) the attenuation of attrition as well as the dynamization of the virtual modality. By way of an evaluation of the experience, I consider that on the one hand it is crucial to bet on intergenerational exchange between involved actors to think of new outreach policies around care and accompaniment of Senior Adults; and on the other hand, that said exchange enables the empowerment of the participants, conferring them a leading role in the teaching-learning processes.