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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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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Souvenirs
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · History Becomes Heritage, shopping
In the surveys of students, shopping was among the most frequently listed activities on the trip. Access to museum souvenir shops was easy in the US. In Korea, there was far less material available, and what there was seemed to be in rather obscure parts of each site. The school trips in Japan far out-performed [...]
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Rituals
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · History Becomes Heritage, Rituals at the Memorials
Students in Japan take part in overtly spiritual rituals at all the memorial sites related to World War II. They routinely visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa, presenting cranes and flowers in honor of the dead. Considerable international ire arises when Japanese politicians make official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which memorializes every single Japanese soldier killed [...]
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Student Travel Experiences
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · History Becomes Heritage, Student Travel Experiences
Traveling together and organizing the details of the travel are two key elements which leave salient memories for students on field trips. Although the modes of transport differ somewhat from country to country, students often commented on the comfort or discomfort of the journey. And to other site visitors the rows of buses everywhere reveal [...]
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