YOUNG PEOPLE Hesitant migrations
They are like the immigrants who came as pioneers to a new land, lacking all knowledge of what demands the new conditions of life would make upon them.
Margaret Mead, ‘Culture and Commitment’, p. 71
Although some of them are of Swiss origin, the researchers working on the present study have lived too long in Paris not to feel like strangers in their new territory, Switzerland. All the same, with the young, they found themselves immigrants among immigrants. And Margaret Mead's observation gave expression to what struck us as soon as the question of audio-visual aids, or new teaching methods, arose. To take the anthropologist's formulation to its logical conclusion, the generation gap is also the ...
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