"Varje lärare bör känna Gotland" "Det idealiska semesterlandet med de rika minnena" : Gotländsk skolresehistoria 1900-1940

Sammanfattning: This assignment focuses on the concept of ”school trips” and Gotland. Pedagogically, the school trip was initially focussed on practical and national aspects, the education to be made visible and the idea was to present Sweden, its nature and its industries. The Gotland administration chose to focus on the unique and cultural history, and it was unusual that visits were undertaken to factories and workshops. This was also the start of the current tourism trend where knowledge of the value of the countryside and the opportunities for tourism is a successful combination, which can be seen today even if the school trips now have different areas to visit. The idea of the project is to investigate how the school trip as an educative method has been initiated and progressed within the Gotlandic development of tourism and whether stakeholders within Gotlandic school trips are successful in their intentions to develop school trips as object lessons. In relation to the previous historical research on the Swedish basic education system this project has a supplementary objective. The project will study those steps agreed by Folkskollärarföreningen [Association of Teachers] and Svenska Turistföreningen [Swedish Tourist Association] as well as the Gotlandic stakeholders in order to develop and streamline the implementation of the school trips. The study of the Gotlandic school trip industry highlighst a hitherto relatively unknown part of the local school trip culture. The project therefore contributes to Gotlandic tourism and cultural history research.