Sessions

Time

Activity

                    Time zone: EET, Helsinki, Riga.

Friday, October 22

1

10.00 – 11.00

Opening

Chairs: Iveta Kestere, Inese Rezgorina

About the project ‘Representation of Childhood at the Museums of Latvia, Integrated in the E-Learning Environment of Higher Education’

Iveta Kestere, Arnis Strazdins, Inese Rezgorina and Reinis Vejins (University of Latvia)

Reflections about the often exaggerated educational expectations concerning the representation of children and childhood in museums

Prof. Marc Depaepe (KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Latvia)

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

2

11.30 – 13.00

Chairs: Iveta Kestere, Inese Rezgorina

Pedagogical museums in Spanish faculties of education: towards the future via the past

Prof. Maria del Mar del Pozo Andrés (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)  

Child soldiers, the end of World War II and the pitfalls of recreating history between survivors, mass media, memory institutions, academia, and education

Prof. Oliver Plessow (University of Rostock, Germany)

Stories of Childhood in the video testimonies of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia

Evita Feldentāle (Museum of the Occupation of Latvia)

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch

3

14.00 – 15.30

Chairs: Marc Depaepe, Reinis Vejins

Tangible Childhood in Early Modern Europe: The Fine Art Approach

Prof. Jeroen J.H. Dekker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

Wastelands of Gary: Towards a participatory turn in educational history?

Prof. Angelo Van Gorp (University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany)

The Child as User: Advertising Educational Tools in an Emerging Digital Society

Prof. Michael Geiss (Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee break

4

16.00 – 17.30

Chairs: Arnis Strazdins, Inese Rezgorina

The diary of a Soviet pupil Kostia Riabcev as a source of the new Soviet school of 1920s.

Prof. Dorena Caroli (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Child in Resort

Inga Sarma (Jūrmala City Museum, Latvia)

Childhood in the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc (1949-1989)

Prof. Joanna Wojdon (University of Wroclaw, Poland)

Saturday, October 23

5

10.00 – 12.15

Chairs: Iveta Kestere, Reinis Vejins

Semantic Architectures of Participation in Childhood Research

Doctor Christoph Schindler (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany)

How to find a childhood from archive storage?

Liina Lõhmus (National Archives of Estonia)

Virtual museums and their educational potential

Prof. Linda Daniela (University of Latvia)

Growing up in troubled society: Historians' account on filmmaking experience

Toms Zarins (University of Latvia)

Closing remarks