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War journalists

War Journalists

The pupils will live report “live” from a war: The Battle of Dybbøl in 1864 or Afghanistan today – choose freely among 500 years of Danish wars in the Danish War Museum’s exhibition ‘Denmark’s Wars’. We will discuss why countries go into war and what the pupils’ roles as journalists are in conflicts.

As war journalists, the pupils will travel back through time and choose a war that they will report from: who is part of the war? What is the conflict about? What can the objects tell us about the war? And what can we learn from the past?

The course will be in three parts:

  • Why war? Here we will talk about the pupils’ knowledge and perceptions of war.
  • War journalists in action! Here the pupils will work source critically with objects of the war in a “live” recording on iPads, all the way up close to a 1600s battlefield sword or yesterdays’ roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
  • From conflict to war? We will end the course with a reflection on the pupils’ everyday conflicts and we will discuss when a conflict turns into a war and what the pupils’ roles are in this situation.

The pupils will borrow iPads at the museum.

 

Curriculum

History

  • Reflect on humankind as history-made and history-making.
  • Collect and systematise information about and from the past.
  • Mediate historical insight in different ways and justify them.

Danish

  • Analyse and assess primarily non-fiction texts in all media.
  • Demonstrate knowledge to and relate to the modern media landscape, including being able to analyse and assess texts’ communicative meaning and the role of the media in the communication.
  • Navigate and choose information in screen-based texts with an academic focus.

 

Facts about the course

Target group: secondary school

Duration: 1½ hours

Maximum number of participants: 28 pupils and 2 teachers

Subject: History, Danish and Social Science

Price: DKK 750

 

Book an educational course

Email:krigsmuseet@natmus.dk

Phone: +45 4120 6080

Please list the name of the school, the year of the class, number of pupils, date and time for the desired course when you are booking.