On 14 May, Ricardo Peixoto, a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University - Braga, appeared on RTP's Portugal em Direto to promote his book ‘Avós e Netos’, recently published by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. The conversation covered aspects related to the role of this relationship in the lives of grandchildren and how grandparents transmit a past that continues into the present of family life.
The book's synopsis states that "with maturity and time, grandparents provide access to the family past and pass on an intangible heritage that helps mould the development of their grandchildren. From one side to the other, the exchange of experiences is a source of affection, care and different perspectives on the world. This essay starts from the contradictions of the many existing studies on the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, to question the conditions in which they have been carried out and the factors and variables favoured. It suggests the possibility of a global reading and culminates in a discussion of the added value that a relational vision can bring to understanding the complex dynamics of this relationship, which involves generations of grandparents, parents and grandchildren with very different characteristics."
Ricardo Peixoto was born in 1981 in Braga. He has been a lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University in Braga since 2006 and a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies. He did his master's degree in Psychology - specialising in Family Psychology - at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Portuguese Catholic University in Braga. He has a PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto.
