The online course prepares students for the challenges a child might have faced during the industrialization of the late 1800s. The course encourages students to explore the topic creatively through the medium of the graphic novel.
Students will gain insight into the following:
- What was a working-class child's workday like during industrialization?
- What was a school day like for a working-class child?
- How could working-class children help support their families in their free time, and what dangers lurked?
- What opportunities did the children have to shape their own future?
This unit is linked to the students’ work on the topic of industrialization, and throughout the unit, students are invited to experience the daily life of a child in the late 1800s. The unit consists of inspiration booklets, a fact booklet, and four short films that provide insight into the daily lives of children in the late 1800s.
You can download the material here:
Christian – The Little Tobacco Worker_inspiration
The program is supported by the Municipality of Assens and was developed in collaboration between Museum Vestfyn and Teatret Lirekassen.
4 SHORT FILMS
See also our four short films, which offer a glimpse into the daily life of a working-class child in the late 1800s. The films were produced in collaboration with Teatret Lirekassen and Holy Cow Media.
A Working-Class Boy's School Day
This program can be effectively supplemented with the dilemma-based city walk *In the Footsteps of the Slacker*.
This educational program was developed as one of several programs under the project “History Told Through Dilemmas.” The project is a collaboration between Museum Vestfyn, Den Gamle By, the Workers’ Museum, the Welfare Museum, Struer Museum, and Museum Sønderjylland. The project is supported by the Nordea Foundation and is part of the Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces’ initiative “Stories of Denmark.”
Contact
To register or for more information, contact skoletjeneste@museumvestfyn.dk