One of the striking features of this research was to discover how often group trips for junior high and high school age students were oriented towards experiencing the outdoors. Once again the trips took a distinctive approach in each country. In Korea, high schoolers went to Jeju Island more than to any other site. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'History Becomes Heritage'
Student Responses — Ecology, Environment and Adventure
May 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Student Responses -- the Natural Environment
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Contemplative places
May 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Rituals at the Memorials
During this research project, I became that memorials often seemed to have a version of a particular kind of contemplative space and object: the round water sculpture. My observations never suggested that these attracted the attention of students. They did attract my attention. The video Remembrance and Meditation starts in Korea at the Seoul War Memorial [...]
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Student responses to their travels: War and Peace
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Student Responses -- War and Peace
The survey results indicate marked differences between the three countries in the degree to which their travels bring issues of war and peace to mind in students. Percentages of peace-related comments Japan: Junior & High school Mentioned the issue = 26.5% Korea: Junior & High school Mentioned the issue = 0.75% US: Junior & High [...]
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Dialogues with the dead
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Rituals at the Memorials
Teenagers engage in formal group rituals at the memorials associated with key sites –delivering cranes to Sadako’s memorial in Hiroshima, for example, or wreath laying at the Mall memorial sites in Washington DC. In addition, these days the sites provide opportunities to enter more deeply into the lives of specific people whose death is memorialized [...]
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Japan and Korea
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · 4. international political relationships, Japan and Korea
2010 marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Japan’s official colonization of Korea. The colonization lasted until 1945 and Japan’s defeat in World War II. In the two countries, the key sites for this research mark the relationship in quite different ways. In Korea, at Seodaemun Prison and at the Cheonan Independence Hall, the physical [...]
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Korea and the United States
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Korea and US
The relationship between South Korea and the United States is framed both by stories of the Korean War in the early 1950s and by current manifestations of intra-Korean tensions, most evident in the harsh and dangerous confrontation between North and South in the. US and Koreans work side by side in the DMZ. Symmetrical oppositions [...]
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United States and Japan
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · US and Japan
Students in Japan are so likely to have visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki that a special section of this study is devoted to the ways that experience is described in the US and in Japan. On this page the focus is on other aspects of the suffering imposed by World War II and museums and memorials [...]
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Tangled bi-lateral relationships
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · 4. international political relationships, Japan and Korea, Korea and US
The three bi-lateral relationships included in this study — Japanese/Korean, Japanese/American and American/Korean — shaped by specific areas of tension. These are evident in the places students visit, as are attempts being made in all three countries to mitigate the tensions. Photos of the different sites help illuminate these legacies. Between Japan and Korea one [...]
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Official Statements of Purpose
March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · History Becomes Heritage
Museums and memorials in Japan, Korea and the USA publish visible statements of the purpose behind making the site. This is distinct from the purpose of the events being memorialized. Japanese sites regularly mention the need to pass the stories on to the next generation. These sites are the most obviously focused on a group [...]
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Children’s Materials
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Special schools-focused materials
In a variety of ways, museums and memorials provided special recognition that their visitors included school groups. Museums and Memorials advertise special entry times for schools and special rates as well: The photos about access come from the Seoul National Museum and Korean War component the “Unification Observatory,” one place ROK school groups visit to [...]
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