Sonja Ehret

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 22(6), 35-47 (2024); https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.22.06.35

Heidelberg University, Germany

Cite this paper as:
Ehret, S. (2024). Knowledge Integration in Students After Transdisciplinary Communication with the Oldest Old. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 22(6), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.22.06.35

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.