Transgenerational Learning

Transgenerational learning is a maintenance activity that is characterized by the dynamics of inter- and intra-generational learning and teaching that takes place through affective relationships. As a pedagogical key of maintenance activities, it is aimed at sustaining the “buen vivir” /the inafa’maolek of the community. According to de Souza, buen vivir refers to harmonious and interdependent coexistence between human and non human beings^[1]. Inafa’maolekis a CHamoru ancestral value that speaks directly to the creation, maintenance and recreation of community harmony as it seeks “to make” (inafa’) “good” (maolek)^[2]. 

In colonial situations transgenerational learning permits community re-existence, understood as ‘the devices that communities create and develop to invent their daily lives and thus be able to confront the reality established by the hegemonic project that from the colonial period to the present day has inferiorized, silenced and negatively visualised the existence of colonised communities’^[3]. This conceptualization of transgenerational learning was proposed by Carmen Á. Granell in her PhD and draws on contributions from decolonial and feminist studies, history of education, pedagogy, archaeology, psychology of learning, anthropology of the ages, among others.

_{^[1] de Souza Silva, José. 2013. «La pedagogía de la felicidad en una educación para la vida. El paradigma del “buen vivir”/ “vivir bien” y la construcción pedagógica del “día después del desarrollo”». Pp. 469-507 en Pedagogías decoloniales Tomo I: Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re)existir y (re)vivir. Vol. Tomo I, Pensamiento decolonial, editado por C. Walsh. Quito: Editorial Abya – Yala.
^[2] https://www.guampedia.com/inafamaolek/
^[3] Albán Achinte, Adolfo. 2013. «Pedagogías de la re-existencia. Artistas indígenas y afrocolombianos». Pp. 443-68 en Pedagogías decoloniales. Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re)existir y revivir. Vol. Tomo I, Pensamiento decolonial, editado por C. Walsh. Quito: Abya Yala.}