My Historical Backpack – An Exercise in Teacher Education
Since 2016, the teaching exercise My Historical Backpack has been established as part of the teacher training program at Örebro University in Sweden. By focusing on historical artifacts, the purpose of the exercise is to stimulate students to present an account of their respectively their family’s history and to offer an opportunity to discuss and reflect over the diversity of historical narratives. This exercise is part of a larger close-to practice research project based on collaboration between the teacher training program and several upper secondary schools (gymnasieskolor) in the region. The aim of the project is to develop effective methods for an inclusive history teaching in a multicultural context that takes into account students’ historical experiences. In this sense, the...