Gen Alpha
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- (demographics, informal) Generation Alpha
Noun
[edit]Gen Alpha (plural Gen Alphas)
- A member of Generation Alpha.
- Synonyms: Alpha, Generation Alpha
- 2016, Joeri Van Den Bergh, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 11:
- Gen Alphas are the kindergarten and pre-school children of Millennials.
- 2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, →ISBN:
- Gen Zers and Gen Alphas are seeing the political work of their peers via the internet and are adapting a more global view of political causes.
- 2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership, →ISBN, pages 271–272:
- According to [Mark] McCrindle, “Gen Alpha will likely stay in education longer, start their earning years later and so stay at home with their parents later than even their predecessors, Gen Z and Gen Y. The role of parents, therefore, will span a longer age range—with many of these Gen Alphas likely to still be living at home later into their 20s.”
- 2022, Carol A. Darling, Dawn Cassidy, Sharon M. Ballard, Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Lifespan, 4th edition, Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 77:
- Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas who have been reared on evolving technologies, may also have little tolerance for lecture-style learning (Hughes, 2020; Mohr & Mohr, 2017; Zarra, 2017).