Intergenerational Learning and Sports Heritage

Professor Richard Haynes

Overview

• An intergenerational sport heritage project in the south of Glasgow.

• Using historical sports media, oral history and experiential learning.

• Exploring links between the sporting past and future wellbeing

Research Issue

• The pilot research and community project aimed to explore interpretations of local sports heritage between different generations in order to understand how the concept of heritage is understood, contested and authenticated, and assess the role and value of sports heritage for cultural and social change.

• The project investigated the cultural transmission of sporting cultures of the past, and its influence over, or disconnection from, contemporary sporting practices of young people.

RESEARCH AIMS & OBJECTIVES

AIM OBJECTIVE

Intergenerational Communication

➡Broaden connections between clubs and young people➡Engage young people in sport & exercise.➡Shared pride in local sporting history.

Community Heritage➡ Raise awareness of sport in the community and its value to local heritage.➡ Draw on the multi-disciplinary knowledge of the PI to connect sport, media and history.

Archival Interpretation and

Use

➡ To engage communities in the use and interpretation of sports films and visual culture.➡ Explore the value of film and visual culture for educational and heritage purposes.

Connecting the Past, Present and Future

➡ Enable communities to explore the continuities & transformations in sports cultures in their localities.➡ Produce sustainable connections and positive social values around sport.

Caring for the Community

➡ Provide school children with a range of experiences and transferable skills which meet the pathways to learning as part of Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence

With historians

Co-Creation of Methodology

With the school With the clubs

What we did

• VISIT SPORTING VENUES AND MUSEUMS

• STUDY LOCAL HISTORIES OF SPORTS CLUBS

• TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES

• INTERPRET PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS

• CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF SPORTING THEMES

• PLAY THE DIFFERENT SPORTS

CHILDREN USED OLD MAPS WITH GOOGLE MAPS, PHOTOS AND FILM TO FORM A SENSE OF LOCAL SPORTING HISTORY

Recording people's memories

•Capturing people's memories of the sporting past for the future.

•Children prepared a list of questions in class before going on the field trips.

•Children had the opportunity to ask the questions and delve in to the reminiscences of people who have memories of playing sport in Shawlands 20, 30, and even 40 years ago.

From sporting past to sports practice

Pupils linked old sports photos to Google Maps via the app HISTORYPIN to create a ‘digital mapping’ of sports heritage in the south of Glasgow

•The school hosted a coffee morning for parents, club representatives and sports professionals, to view their work.

• Creates meaning around life experience (playing and watching sport)

• It identifies a shared communal resource which are:

1. Material - photos, film, places and objects

2. Discursive - stories, traditions, experiences

• Promotes community participation within a given social configuration (sport in the southside of Glasgow)

• Intergenerational learning creates personal histories for:

1. Children - a sense of place, civic engagement, generational.

2.Adults - pride, identification with a club/sport, generational.

Intergenerational interpretation of media sports heritage has four potential benefits: