Insurmountable boundaries: the Wall, the Walls, Migration
Teaching module for junior secondary schools 03 – 17 December 2024
The construction of barriers to separate states or communities is one of the realities of the present. While the fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to usher in a new historical phase, marked by the overcoming of the concept of separation itself, the current reality is a far cry from the hope of the late 1980s. We reconstruct these phenomena and dynamics by placing ourselves in the present-past-present flow.
In collaboration with the Istituto Parri
History of the Berlin Wall
- Tuesday 3 December 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
One of the symbols of the Cold War prompts basic historical questions: why was a wall built and why in Berlin? How did men and women live with a barrier that remained insurmountable for twenty-eight years? Why did the wall fall and what were the consequences?
The walls of yesterday, the walls of today
- Tuesday 10 December 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
In the second lesson we will examine the topic of walls around the world. Through geo-localisation using digital tools, we will analyse the extent of the phenomenon in order to investigate the main motivations that trigger these dividing processes
Geography and the history of migration
- Tuesday 17 December 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
In the third lesson, the Asian, African and South American contexts will be explored, with a focus on their internal movements, allowing the complexity of the phenomenon of migration flows to emerge and investigating the main motivations that push/force people to migrate.
