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2009-11-29

Evaluation Report

”Bridging Local History in a Global Context” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TIME TRAVELS AND HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION, STUNDARS AND CITY OF KOKKOLA, FINLAND, SEPTEMBER 10-13 2009 Background Since 2007 an informal Ostrobothnian network for time travels and historic environment education has been meeting twice a year. Together with the Finland-Swedish Federation for Local Heritage we decided to invite Bridging Ages to hold the 2009 years conference in Finland.

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2009-11-28

Abstracts - a summary

This article contains short summarys from some of our key note speakers

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2009-11-27

Time travels and historic enviroment education as part of the curriculum - Annina Ylikoski

Time travels and historic enviroment education can be a central part of the local schools curriculum. In the archipelago of Turku, the museums have worked towards getting this as part of the schools curriculum. The same is now also done in Ostrobothnia, in a special children’s culture network that spans over 18 muncipalities.

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2009-11-25

Time travels in teacher training - Tom Gullberg

The debate about history teaching in schools is often described as a tension between two traditions: 1) The traditional history teaching with focus on subject competence, i.e. the historical facts (“The great tradition”). 2) The alternative history teaching with a focus on historical skills, i.e. the functional competence.

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2009-11-24

Handicraft and History on Park Avenue in Minneapolis

Presentation to Bridging Ages Conference September 11, 2009 Stundars, Solf, Finland

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2009-11-23

Cooperation model in the culture heritage education: problems and challenges

Agrita Ozola Tukums museum Latvia

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2009-11-22

Local surroundings and local history as teaching source - A study of a pilot project in Ostrobotnia - Abstract Liisa Kärkkeinen

I will make a brief presentation of my master’s thesis in the Bridging Ages- conference. I am 25-year old student studying in Vaasa. I’m studying to become elementary school teacher in Swedish immersion education.

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2009-11-21

An Emotional Experience as a Learning Opportunity - Leen Jõesoo

The presentation is based on my research I made in Tallinn University adult education department. The problem of my master thesis, arisen from the theoretical background and my practical experience as one organizer of time travels in Tallinn, was the following: what are the connections between emotional experience/thrill and learning?

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2009-11-20

ABSRACT - THE FINNISH WAR 1808-1809 AND THE DAWN OF A NEW AUTONOMOUS NATION, FINLAND - Lauri Skantsi

The Finnish war was rooted in events throughout Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power after the French Revolution (1789) and his deliberate expansionist politics led to differences of opinion between nations. Those times Finland was a part of Sweden.

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2009-11-19

Time Traveling to our recent pasts - Jon Hunner

Professor Jon Hunner, New Mexico State University, USA

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2009-11-18

TIME TRAVEL TO 1955 IN MANİSA

MUNICIPALITY OF MANISA- CHILDREN’S ART &CULTURE CENTER TEACHERS EBRU & SALIH İLTENMİŞ

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