Taking note of the current best practices, this document zooms in on five concrete recommendations that would help unleash the potential of football history and football heritage in tackling social exclusion. The document, based also on the Needs Assessment of the project, aims to help policymakers see the current roadblocks for using football history and heritage as a tool within formal and informal education, making concrete suggestions for policy action at several levels of policy making.
Click here for the complete set of Policy and Action Recommendations developed as part of our Football Makes History project.
Students as Mediators of Conflicts
Find out what New Students Bring to the Classroom
As a response to an increase in new students in the Swedish educational system, the Swedish Board of Education tasked a group of schools and universities to find a way to assess what newly arrived students know in order to provide the best possible education for each student, as well as focusing on their strengths rather than their weaknesses. This resulted in the formation of materials for conducting discourse around history for the purpose of assessing the historical competencies of newly arrived students. This is done in the form of a 70-minute conversation between a teacher and a student. The assessment is meant to provide valuable insight into what the students are already familiar with, so that teachers can take this into account when creating lesson plans.