“Learning is a process of active engagement with experience. It is what people do when they want to make sense of the world. It may involve the development or deepening of skills, knowledge, understanding, awareness, values, ideas and feelings, or an increase in the capacity to reflect. Effective learning leads to change, development and the desire to learn more.”
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council of England (MLA)
Learning was at the very heart of the Their Past Your Future (TPYF) project. TPYF’s learning objectives have been identified within the MLA’s Inspiring Learning for All (ILFA) framework, which is transforming how learning is defined, planned for and measured, and which clearly defines learning as an active and individual process.
Within this wider framework are the Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs). These GLOs allow a wide range of individual learning outcomes, from enjoyment to improved social skills, to be grouped into categories and evaluated as evidence of learning. TPYF used the GLOs to ensure that the project’s learning objectives promoted a wide range of meaningful and positive learning experiences for all involved, and regardless of whether learning activities are in a formal education context such as schools or colleges, or more informal settings such as museums, libraries or archives
To find out more about the Inspiring Learning for All framework you can visit the ILFA website at www.inspringlearningforall.gov.uk.
The five GLOs are listed below along with the more specific outcomes that the project aimed to achieve. Either scroll down the page or click on the headings below to go straight to that section. . If you are interested in the learning objectives for Phase 2 of the TPYF project please click here.
Knowledge and Understanding
Skills
Attitudes and Values
Creativity, Inspiration and Enjoyment
Activity, Behaviour and Progression
We wanted participants to gain knowledge and understanding of:
- The variety and diversity of people's experience of war, and of its long term on their lives and on the UK;
- The unique nature of veterans' wartime contribution;
- The issues of remembrance and memory, peace making and keeping, and reconciliation;
We wanted participants to develop their skills of:
- developing relationships with peers and with older and younger people
- learning in social and informal ways
- becoming more self-aware about their own learning, developing more sophisticated skills of ethical and critical thinking
- learning to use digital equipment
- learning to create web-based resources (case studies)
- learning about the role of the citizen in a democracy
We wanted people to rethink their values, attitudes and feelings to:
- have a greater motivation to learn about the past and its relevance to the present and future
- gain a fuller appreciation of themselves – of their achievements and their relationship and own identity with their communities
- gain a deeper sense of understanding for people of different ages, races, religious experiences and backgrounds to themselves
We wanted participants to:
- make lateral connections between their own lives & experiences and those of others
- learn to express themselves in different, creative and enjoyable ways, through making veterans’ case studies, or recording their experiences of participating in the commemorative events
We wanted people to:
- participate in commemorative, community events for the first time
- work collaboratively with others as part of a team
- behave with more confidence
- actively encouraging others to visit wartime sites and memorials, museums or historic sites
