On Saturday 26 October, Erasmus University Rotterdam is hosting "Using Football to Teach Modern History". This study day for teachers, teaching methodologists and trainee teachers is organised by the Football Makes History network and ICLON and Education Network Zuid-Holland.
- Date
- Saturday 26 Oct 2024, 10:00 - 17:00
- Type
- General
- Spoken Language
- English
- Location
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Invitation
Making history concrete and close to one's own experience: this is not always the strongest quality of our schoolbooks. On this special day, we will share experiences from the "Football Makes History" programme on how teachers can use sport and powerful sports stories to say something about the history of the 19th and 20th centuries and make it tangible and relevant for secondary school students of both lower and upper grades. In this way, history remains relevant and recognizable for students while also embracing complexity and multiple perspectives. Join us as we collaborate with journalists, academics, museum professionals, and experts to enrich the way we teach history.
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Aims
- Examine the challenges and opportunities for teachers, educators, journalists and the curious, especially in relation to formal history teaching and citizenship education.
- Show and experience how lessons on sport (football) can help motivate pupils, young people and others to think about history, borders and migration, gender, race, war and peace and other major social issues.
- Create engagement with football and education institutions and promote participation in the Football Makes History Platform.
- Providing (we do) and assessing (participants do) concrete teaching materials and lesson plans for secondary schools.
Results
- New insights into how our conversations sometimes revolve around ‘football and education’ and other times around ‘education and football’.
- New contacts and connections among all participants.
- Fresh inspiration to look at the world in a ‘football way’.
Programme
09:30 - 10:00 | Arrival and coffee
10:00 - 11:00 | Panel: Sports and Society
- Thomas Rijsman (journalist for Studio Sport, and writer on Moroccan players in the Netherlands)
- Ellen Mannens (journalist, podcast creator, and Feyenoord fan)
- Palesa Mashigo (media expert and social scientist with a focus on racism and football)
- Kyra Fastenau (Public Affairs & Education team at Kazerne Dossin, a museum, memorial center, and research center on the Holocaust and human rights in Mechelen, Belgium)
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee
11:30 - 13:00 | Workshop round 1
- Choice of 6 workshops – see below in Dutch and English
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 | Workshop round 2
- Choice of 6 workshops – see below in Dutch and English
15:30 - 16:30 | Closing panel with special guests
Workshop: History, Society, and Football (English and Dutch)
Gijsbert Oonk (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
In this workshop, you will learn how to teach colonial migration and international labor migration through World Cup football. Using examples from France and Germany, we will explore how European football is intertwined with colonial history and labor migration. We open the debate on the meaning of national teams and identity.
Jonathan Even-Zohar (Reinwardt Academy)
Igor Jovanovic (Croatian Association of History Teachers)
Wars such as in Ukraine and Gaza dominate the news. How can we, as teachers, offer students perspectives on how people have overcome conflicts? Football is often an arena where conflicts are fought, but it can also be part of the solution. In this workshop, we discuss historical life stories of footballers and ordinary people to help students understand the mechanisms of conflict and reconciliation.
Andreas Holtberget (EuroClio)
Nationalist movements, wars, and the rise of nation-states have led to changing borders in Europe. Can football help make these complex themes more appealing to students? This workshop offers a lesson plan to explore nationality and border changes.
Emiel van der Hart (EuroClio)
Anne Bothmer (Beeld en Geluid)
This workshop tests a toolkit for teaching history with audiovisual football content, including videos and resources from fmh.eu.
Maria Vlachaki (Greek history teacher)
Exploring the history of a local football club can help understand historical events such as wars and migration. Maria Vlachaki presents how she applies this with her students.
