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Education

On this page we present inspiring projects, initiatives and examples of Oral History in education.

Higher education, Secondary education

Oral history in the class

Examples of oral history interviews, downloadable teaching materials and guidance for starting your own oral history project

Secondary education, Vocational education

Freedom in vision and sound

A program in four rounds for young people. They get to work, based on short quotes from oral history interviews, to create their own images of freedom. For this they use their smartphones.

Vocational education

Oral history – instruction videos

Instructive oral history videos from Erfgoed Gelderland now online
Episode 1 What is oral history?
Episode 2 Preparing for the interview
Episode 3 Recording the interview
Episode 4 Interview technique
Episode 5 Processing and archiving the interview

Primary education

Guest workers – Het Klokhuis

Klokhuis special about guest workers who came to the Netherlands starting in the 1960s.

Secondary education

The World of the East

Here you will find the working methods developed for The World of East and the film East. The tools are aimed at classroom discussion and research from a multi-perspective approach. They can be used in subjects such as history, CKV, (mbo) citizenship or project education and higher education.

Secondary education

Young trackers

Approach to teach pupils to investigate (migration) history in their own environment. The Cultural Pathfinders projects (2004-2008) of the Centre for the History of Migrants (CGM) provided inspiration.

Primary education

The walls have ears

Everyone has traces of migration in their family history, from a shorter or longer period of time.

Primary education

Jewish children in Camp Vught

Educational package with short documentary "What can they do to us?" in which four eyewitnesses talk about their experiences.

Primary education, Secondary education

Süskind

The true story of the Jewish resistance hero Walter Süskind

Primary education, Secondary education

Ancestors unKnown Netherlands

Ancestors unKnown Netherlands is a history programme that makes pupils in a (multicultural) class co-producer of their own historiography.

Higher education

GeschiedenisLab Workshops oral history

Interactive workshops for history students

Higher education, Secondary education

Oral history and history teaching

Discussion file. Compared to other countries, oral history is hardly used in the classroom.

Vocational education

Freedom and Citizenship

Erfgoed Gelderland is developing unique oral history teaching materials in collaboration with the Gelderland War Museums, the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen and various vocational schools in Gelderland.

Primary education, Secondary education

Eyewitnesses in the classroom

Research on the use of filmed interviews with eyewitnesses of WWII in the classroom

Higher education, Primary education, Secondary education

Story House Belvédère

Verhalenhuis Belvédère offers pupils a free space to connect with Rotterdam.

Primary education

In my neighbourhood

Learning by meeting
► War in my neighbourhood
► Colonial traces in my neighbourhood
► Arrival in my neighbourhood

Primary education, Secondary education

The emigration generation

The Emigration Generation is a project in which children between the ages of 10 and 14 collect the migration stories (from the 1960s and 1970s) of grandparents in small groups.

Secondary education

My city

The history of Heerlen in the 20th century in relation to the rise and fall of the mining industry.

Secondary education

Learning from hearsay

Learning by Hearing is a practical guide for secondary schools that want to put oral history into practice.

Secondary education

The lessons of the ZMV

Lessons of the Black, Migrant and Refugee Women's Movement

Secondary education

The lessons of Aletta Jacobs

Educational package with four educational clips and an accompanying teaching programme about the multifaceted struggle of Aletta Jacobs

Secondary education

The Lessons of Dolle Mina

The educational programme "The Lessons of Dolle Mina" consists of four knowledge clips and accompanying teaching packs on the actions and demands of Dolle Mina and the context of the "second feminist wave".

Primary education, Secondary education, Vocational education

View on freedom

Refugee stories then and now

Primary education

We are free

Experience the stories of people who were not free for a while, because they lived in war. Or because they could not be who they wanted to be.

Primary education, Secondary education, Vocational education

Young at war

In Young at War, eyewitnesses recount their childhood in the Second World War

Secondary education, Vocational education

Story of my flight

A project for pupils and teachers in secondary education and vocational training.

Secondary education

Specially Unknown

How can teachers, for example of social studies and history, use the material of Specially Unknown?

Primary education, Secondary education

Suitcases with stories

In the programme Koffers volhalen pupils receive a suitcase containing stories and objects from an eyewitness of the Battle of Arnhem.

Primary education, Secondary education

Eyewitnesses tell

Children of that time tell what they experienced during the Battle of Arnhem. This can be done in the Airborne Museum or in the classroom.

Secondary education

Veteran in the classroom

As part of the exhibition 'The Red Beret', about 25 years of the Airborne Brigade, the Veterans Institute and the Airborne Museum work together to link the past with the present.

Secondary education

Moluccan community

Oral History project with the Buah Hati Foundation and RSG Lingecollege

Higher education, Vocational education

Archive Lectures Sound and Vision

The archive of Sound & Vision is invaluable for creative media makers.

Primary education

Erf Goed!

Erf Goed! is a perfect tool for the elementary school teacher who wants to connect the classroom with the stories and emotions that heritage has to offer.

Primary education, Secondary education

An ‘After the War’ guest lesson

From the power of the personal story of WW2, themes such as anti-Semitism and exclusion are discussed. Several guest speakers take students back to the past and link it to contemporary social developments.

Primary education

The life story as work of art

In search of the past, by questioning your grandfather or your grandmother or another elderly person

Primary education, Secondary education

Education project ‘Traces of the East Indies’

The documentary 'Traces of the East Indies' tells national history through local examples. Special teaching materials have been developed for use by schools nationwide.

Higher education, Primary education, Secondary education

Auschwitz, our story

40-minute documentary and educational lesson with two-level questions.

Higher education, Primary education, Secondary education, Vocational education

Online learning with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

A wide range of teaching materials on the Holocaust

Secondary education, Vocational education

The Russians’ war on Texel

The site Russenoorlog.nl provides a clear overview of the historical events on the island that eventually became known as the Russ War