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What is Historic Environment Education and Time Travels?

 

Historic Environment Education uses local historic sites and nearby history as an active way of learning and inspiring today's people and communities about the past.

 

Time Travels is an educational method where the participants research and take part in the life of another historical time period in order to learn about themselves and their society.

 

The 7 steps
1. Choose a site
2. Reseach
3. Read the landscape
4. Training days
5. Education
6. Time travel
7. Evaluation

 

The 5 principles of Historic Environment Education and Time Travels

  • It focuses on local sites and the stories of the sites.
  • It has a bottom up perspective, history from below.
  • In the key questions today and the past are connected.
  • There is an interaction with the community and the schools in research, education/ studies and Time Travels.
  • A Time Travel always has a reflecting dialogue; learning by doing, reflection and challenging.
For more information, see the Case Statement.

 Methodology of Historic Environment Education and Time Travels.

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Coordinator: Kalmar County Museum, Ebbe Westergren
Adress: Kalmar County Museum, Sweden, Ebbe Westergren, Box 104, S-391 21 Kalmar
Phone: +460480451345
E-mail: ebbe.westergren@kalmarlansmuseum.se