EMA - European memory-attitudes

EMA - European memory-attitudes

Projektträger
Ev. Kirchenkreis Münster - Osteuropareferat ()
Ausrichter
Ort des Projektträgers
Münster (Koordination) -
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
31.01.2015 -
Von
Geert Franzenburg, Ev. KK Münster

How pupils live, interpret and share their memory-culture –
impressions from the Baltic Sea region (D/EE/LV/PL)

We all are part of a history and a history and culture makes a part of our identity. One needs to be aware of one’s past, traditions, and culture in order to appreciate the freedom and the existence we all enjoy today. One key to facilitate opportunities for such experiences is the combination of individual, group/communicative and cultural memory, together with the orientation at cultural core-events and places. Such context is embedded in a certain order of social challenges and knowledge-transfer, and depends on interests, experiences, stereotypes and purposes of the actors. In order to explore the influence of the framework on human memory-attitudes, it is helpful to evaluate how pupils from Germany, Latvia and Poland are coping with memories from the past, which they remember from their own biography, from family, school and society. It also intends to facilitate opportunities for young people to make autonomous research and intercultural encounters. The study presents a parallel analyses of a questionnaire data related to the aspects of remembrance of nations’ cultural and historical events as gathered from the basic school students in age group from 15 - 19, and in the age group from 10 - 14 , participants from different regions of Germany, Latvia, and Poland. The data gained from a questionnaire reflects the significance the past events as viewed by pupils.
The study is based on different educational approaches, which concern aspects of collective memory or collective identity, such as Holocaust-education, anamnetic education, ethics of remembrance, and heritage education. For the research and the facilitated educational concepts, the models of retrospective anticipation, of discovery learning, autonomous research (real, virtual), intergenerational and intercultural commemoration, of sustainable education and media education, are crucial. Therefore, all educational efforts are based on the reservoir of past events, and on the way, how young people experience, interpret and use them to follow their interests and develop their attitudes. The adults (researchers, teachers, educators) only facilitate the framework and material and assist them initiating, making and evaluating their own projects. Because memory-cultures in Europe area plural(istic) phenomenon, and an educational chance and challenge, which are based on common collective memories, ritualized in society, community, family, and focused on the process-like nature of culture by de- and reconstruction, the common cultural memory over centuries, the common cultural factors and elements, such as the confrontation-memory of aggressor and victims or the trauma of holocaust and war, of deportation and expulsion, have to be recognized as well as the challenge of political, cultural, ethical and social transition, and the resource of common interests and of an analogue emotional and religious framework, exemplified in narrations, rituals and attitudes.
The first empirical overview (about 500 answers from 3 countries) mostly confirms the theoretical considerations, and motivates to widen the research and to develop appropriate environments and concepts for autonomous research.

Therefore, we invite researchers, teachers, educators, students, pupils to join this project and to contribute to it.

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