Listen and Learn: Examining the Role of Schools Radio Broadcasting in Scotland's Classrooms

该项目将研究苏格兰学校无线电广播在为年轻听众形成民族认同、公民身份、国际主义和环境主义思想方面所发挥的历史作用。英国广播公司于1926年为苏格兰学校设计了专门的广播节目，于1928年首次播出，并一直持续到20世纪90年代。听广播节目一直是苏格兰几代学生学习经历中的一项活动，对许多人来说，这是他们教育中令人愉快和难忘的一部分。对于学校教师来说，英国广播公司的广播，以及配套的印刷小册子和准备笔记，是一种宝贵的资源，他们开始依赖。在20世纪的大部分时间里，在每天或每周的固定时间里，无线收音机成为学校教室的标志性设备，它发出的声音、声音、语言和歌曲将年轻的听众带过了时空。电台邀请孩子们从不同的角度进行“地理思考”：过去的景观、当地研究、发现和帝国时代、全球贸易、工业化、城市化、资源利用和自然保护。这一切都是为了让苏格兰在世界上的地位有意义。通过档案调查和口述历史的结合，本研究将包括以下问题：1。随着广播的普及，“听即学”作为一种新的教育媒介和教学方法是如何被引入广播室和学校课堂的？2. 随着时间的推移，BBC学校广播和出版的内容是如何代表苏格兰的过去、现在、地点、政治和社会变革进程的？3. 在当今以数字媒介为媒介的世界中，如何将BBC学校广播的非物质遗产作为一种文化和教育资产来共享？

The project will examine the historical role that schools radio broadcasting in Scotland played in the formulation of ideas of national identity, citizenship, internationalism and environmentalism for a young listening audience. Dedicated radio programming for Scottish schools was conceived by the BBC in 1926, first broadcast in 1928, and continued to be a regular scheduling feature into the 1990s. Listening to radio programmes was an activity steadily integrated into the learning experiences of generations of Scottish schoolchildren, and for many proved an enjoyable and memorable part of their education. For school-teachers, BBC radio broadcasts, along with supporting print pamphlets and preparatory notes, were a valued resource that came to be depended upon. For much of the twentieth-century, at set times of the day or week, the wireless radio receiver became the defining feature of the school classroom, emitting voices, sounds, language and songs that transported young listeners across space and time. Radio invited children to 'think geographically' about, variously: past landscapes, local studies, the ages of discovery and empire, global trade, industrialisation, urbanisation, resource use, and nature conservation. All as a means to make sense of Scotland's place in the world. Through a combination of archival inquiries and oral histories, this research will include the following questions: 1. With the popularisation of radio, how was "listening-as-learning" introduced as a new educational medium and teaching technique, both in the broadcasting studio and the school classroom? 2. Over time, how did the content of BBC schools radio broadcasting and publishing represent versions of Scotland's past, present, places, politics and processes of social change? 3. In what ways can the intangible heritage of BBC schools radio broadcasting be shared as a cultural and educational asset connecting communities and generations in today's digitally-mediated world?