Cultural packages to the schools and Role Playing

Mette Henriksenmehe@gentofte.dk

About the Cultural packages

• Cultural packages are courses in the daytime for children in schools and kindergartens.

• The children are taught by ’professionals’ in the kindergarden, at the school or at the ’Cultural School’.

• Additional info: www.kulturskolerne.dk

Local History Package:’Into the local heritage’ – Role Playing

• Introduction to the local history and Role Playing about a school day in the 1950s – learning about morning song, discipline, eating lunch, march in straight rows and classroom discipline.

• Grade: Primary school

• Where: At the school

• Duration: Two days

• Teacher preparation: Teacher and Student Guide to RP

• Two historians from the Local History Archives

• Price: 400 kr.

Local History Package

Adjusted for the schools’ ’step by step’ goals

for ’Danish’ and ’History’.

Role Playing – a day in the school in the 1950s

• Introduction to role playing and archives: • We introduce the students to the idea of role

playing and preparations with clothes, lunch boxes, decorating the classroom.

• We practice ways of speaking, classroom, morning songs.

• Students choose a name for the day. • We point out two class monitors (=’dukse’).• Homework for the role playing days.

Role Playing – a day in the school in the 1950s

How do we introduce the archives and the collections? How do we know, what we know?

• The inspiration-box (suitcase)

• Use real historical sources

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Morning Song

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

The Teachers

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Lunch

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Clothes, discipline and breaks

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

The class photo

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Different ways of teaching

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

‘Praise and rice’

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Writing with pen and ink

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

An apple a day …

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Evaluating

“We didn’t just read about the 1950s in a book, we have actually been there!”

Said by a student in 5 class