English subtitles for clip: File:Arbetssättet i Välkommen till min plats.webm
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
1 00:00:00,013 --> 00:00:02,037 The basic idea of this project 2 00:00:02,266 --> 00:00:03,674 came to us by realizing that 3 00:00:03,983 --> 00:00:06,283 when students work with history 4 00:00:06,283 --> 00:00:10,090 – and not only students, but really for most people – 5 00:00:10,090 --> 00:00:12,897 it feels like something very distant, 6 00:00:13,031 --> 00:00:16,210 not only distant in time but also in space. 7 00:00:16,210 --> 00:00:19,677 Students read about big processes like industrialization, 8 00:00:19,780 --> 00:00:23,480 the first world war, or urbanization. 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,593 There are many hard, big words, and they 10 00:00:25,593 --> 00:00:28,816 seldom have to do with me or with what I recognize. 11 00:00:28,934 --> 00:00:30,771 From here we got the idea to start 12 00:00:30,771 --> 00:00:32,387 to work with students from a 13 00:00:32,387 --> 00:00:34,482 very close perspective, and that specific places 14 00:00:34,482 --> 00:00:35,834 are something with which one has connections. 15 00:00:35,834 --> 00:00:38,026 It is possible to start with other things 16 00:00:38,029 --> 00:00:39,285 that I know well, 17 00:00:39,285 --> 00:00:40,757 like interests, or so. 18 00:00:40,768 --> 00:00:43,333 But the place connects the class as the school 19 00:00:43,333 --> 00:00:45,023 is located on a specific place. 20 00:00:45,023 --> 00:00:47,536 There are many advantages I think 21 00:00:47,536 --> 00:00:51,786 of starting with the small things, that are close to the students. 22 00:00:51,826 --> 00:00:53,886 Above all, I think history 23 00:00:53,886 --> 00:00:56,199 becomes much more concrete if you start there. 24 00:00:56,199 --> 00:00:59,342 It is not abstract, not far away, not long ago 25 00:00:59,342 --> 00:01:00,984 but here and now. 26 00:01:00,984 --> 00:01:03,469 To start there, and then to slowly build the larger 27 00:01:03,469 --> 00:01:07,129 history from the small facts, seeing the connections. 28 00:01:07,129 --> 00:01:09,473 I think that is a great advantage of this method. 29 00:01:09,473 --> 00:01:12,536 A simple example to use, 30 00:01:12,536 --> 00:01:14,677 anywhere in this country, 31 00:01:14,677 --> 00:01:16,855 that's the church, 32 00:01:16,855 --> 00:01:18,684 with its long history. 33 00:01:18,684 --> 00:01:22,350 Almost everywhere in Sweden, there is an old church. Start there! 34 00:01:22,350 --> 00:01:24,373 You can stroll around in the churchyard, 35 00:01:24,373 --> 00:01:25,843 and read on the gravestones. 36 00:01:25,843 --> 00:01:27,341 That's fantastic! 37 00:01:27,341 --> 00:01:30,210 Find titles, human beings. 38 00:01:30,796 --> 00:01:33,074 You see when they were born and died. 39 00:01:33,074 --> 00:01:37,786 Already there, we have history, a local history, with real humans. 40 00:01:37,899 --> 00:01:41,379 They may not be alive, but they have lived here. 41 00:01:41,517 --> 00:01:42,517 That's something to think about! 42 00:01:42,517 --> 00:01:45,491 Why are there so many smiths at this churchyard? 43 00:01:45,491 --> 00:01:46,850 Why is that? 44 00:01:47,149 --> 00:01:50,197 Does that have something to do with the local mill? 45 00:01:50,536 --> 00:01:53,799 Why are there so many homestead owners? 46 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:56,136 And what is a homestead? 47 00:01:56,425 --> 00:01:57,518 That's a place to start! 48 00:01:57,518 --> 00:02:03,478 The church and its yard are splendid places to start local history on. 49 00:02:03,478 --> 00:02:06,195 To a large extent, this project is all about 50 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:09,864 understanding what history is and how it is created. 51 00:02:09,864 --> 00:02:14,311 That history is not the always the same, something given that's just there, 52 00:02:14,311 --> 00:02:16,897 but that it is – all the time – created by people, 53 00:02:16,947 --> 00:02:20,032 has been created by people and is created by people, 54 00:02:20,108 --> 00:02:22,338 influenced by time, and so on. 55 00:02:22,447 --> 00:02:25,320 And that historical sources may be of different types. 56 00:02:25,437 --> 00:02:27,686 They can be images, texts. 57 00:02:28,011 --> 00:02:29,748 And indeed stories. 58 00:02:29,913 --> 00:02:34,024 That is where "Platser.se" as platform enters the picture, 59 00:02:34,227 --> 00:02:36,819 as an important place where one can compile those 60 00:02:36,948 --> 00:02:38,925 stories which do not have 61 00:02:38,986 --> 00:02:42,260 a place in the history book or the encyclopedia, 62 00:02:42,582 --> 00:02:45,998 but that still is a story of the place. 63 00:02:46,093 --> 00:02:49,325 By letting the students tell their own story there, 64 00:02:49,419 --> 00:02:52,512 or that of someone else that they have interviewed, 65 00:02:52,859 --> 00:02:57,172 they contribute to the preservation of the immaterial cultural heritage. 66 00:02:57,172 --> 00:02:58,677 By doing this, they do 67 00:02:58,677 --> 00:03:00,595 an important historic contribution, 68 00:03:00,708 --> 00:03:03,368 a real collection as a contribution 69 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:04,884 to future historians. 70 00:03:05,203 --> 00:03:07,873 With a pedagogical project there is of course 71 00:03:07,873 --> 00:03:12,623 a learning perspective, that the students should learn something new. 72 00:03:12,904 --> 00:03:19,135 They should learn about the nearby region, how to search for information, 73 00:03:19,466 --> 00:03:21,031 source criticism, and so on. 74 00:03:21,031 --> 00:03:23,411 But indeed, that is something we as adults 75 00:03:23,411 --> 00:03:29,600 could learn from as well, especially how to regard the world we live in. 76 00:03:29,983 --> 00:03:32,592 And I think that the historical perspective in itself 77 00:03:32,592 --> 00:03:35,630 plays an incredibly important role when it comes to 78 00:03:35,630 --> 00:03:39,337 identity, belongingness, and such things. 79 00:03:39,403 --> 00:03:42,987 In Stockholm, the suburbs are often seen as something 80 00:03:42,987 --> 00:03:48,136 that had a history a long time ago 81 00:03:48,337 --> 00:03:50,854 but after that, a large white space, 82 00:03:51,161 --> 00:03:54,278 until history started again with the bulding of the Million Programme 83 00:03:54,278 --> 00:03:56,457 and the Million Programme is often spoken of 84 00:03:56,457 --> 00:03:58,159 as the constant teenager. 85 00:03:58,679 --> 00:04:00,661 But I believe that through this kind of projects 86 00:04:00,661 --> 00:04:05,285 you can actually get another view of where you live 87 00:04:05,410 --> 00:04:07,108 and your place in history. 88 00:04:07,199 --> 00:04:09,273 That is something that encourages me to work, 89 00:04:09,293 --> 00:04:12,259 the democratic right for everyone living in a place 90 00:04:12,291 --> 00:04:16,542 to feel that you are a part of that place's history. 91 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:19,509 The idea with this project consists of several parts. 92 00:04:19,669 --> 00:04:22,018 One part is the historical consciousness, 93 00:04:22,018 --> 00:04:26,650 to understand how history is created and used, and be a part of that. 94 00:04:27,017 --> 00:04:33,186 We have done that through starting in our days, in what's close, where you are now, 95 00:04:33,186 --> 00:04:34,526 and how you experience that, 96 00:04:34,526 --> 00:04:38,086 from there look back towards a past which 97 00:04:38,086 --> 00:04:41,711 spacially is close but past us in time 98 00:04:41,892 --> 00:04:46,601 and then look forward, ponder the thought that this place 99 00:04:46,601 --> 00:04:49,563 will remain, and that other things will happen here 100 00:04:49,565 --> 00:04:50,988 after I have left it. 101 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:53,724 This is the "process of historical consciousness", 102 00:04:53,724 --> 00:04:57,353 to understand that I am a part of history and its processes. 103 00:04:57,353 --> 00:04:59,753 The other part is source criticism, 104 00:05:00,019 --> 00:05:03,552 to search for information in different sources, 105 00:05:03,667 --> 00:05:07,885 different places, books and online, and so on. 106 00:05:07,903 --> 00:05:11,715 To value the sources: can I trust this source, and why? 107 00:05:12,006 --> 00:05:15,443 And when I can trust it, re-use it, 108 00:05:15,533 --> 00:05:17,594 and explain for someone else that 109 00:05:17,594 --> 00:05:20,198 this source is trust-worthy, I have valued it. 110 00:05:20,198 --> 00:05:22,650 And for the more practical parts, to be able to cite a source, 111 00:05:22,650 --> 00:05:26,653 be able to explain where I found it and how to use it.