This document describes an intergenerational sports heritage project in Glasgow that engaged school children and community members. The project aimed to explore how local sports heritage is understood between generations and its role in cultural and social change. Students visited sporting venues and museums, studied club histories, interpreted archival media, and participated in sports. They recorded oral histories from community members and linked archival photos to maps. The project helped students develop a sense of local sports history and community members feel pride in their sporting past.

1. Intergenerational Learning
and Sports Heritage
Professor Richard Haynes

2. • An intergenerational
sport heritage project in
the south of Glasgow.
• Using historical sports
media, oral history and
experiential learning.
• Exploring links between
the sporting past and
future wellbeing
Overview

3. Research Issue
• The pilot research and community
project aimed to explore
interpretations of local sports heritage
between different generations in
order to understand how the concept
of heritage is understood, contested
and authenticated, and assess the
role and value of sports heritage for
cultural and social change.
• The project investigated the cultural
transmission of sporting cultures of
the past, and its influence over, or
disconnection from, contemporary
sporting practices of young people.

4. RESEARCH AIMS & OBJECTIVES
AIM OBJECTIVE
Intergenerational
Communication
➡Broaden connections between clubs and young
people
➡Engage young people in sport & exercise.
➡Shared pride in local sporting history.
Community Heritage
➡ Raise awareness of sport in the community and
its value to local heritage.
➡ Draw on the multi-disciplinary knowledge of the
PI to connect sport, media and history.
Archival
Interpretation and
Use
➡ To engage communities in the use and
interpretation of sports films and visual culture.
➡ Explore the value of film and visual culture for
educational and heritage purposes.
Connecting the Past,
Present and Future
➡ Enable communities to explore the continuities
& transformations in sports cultures in their
localities.
➡ Produce sustainable connections and positive
social values around sport.
Caring for the
Community
➡ Provide school children with a range of
experiences and transferable skills which meet the
pathways to learning as part of Scotland's
Curriculum for Excellence

5. Co-Creation of Methodology
With historians
With the school With the clubs

6. What we did
• VISIT SPORTING VENUES AND
MUSEUMS
• STUDY LOCAL HISTORIES OF
SPORTS CLUBS
• TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR
EXPERIENCES
• INTERPRET PHOTOGRAPHS AND
FILMS
• CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF
SPORTING THEMES
• PLAY THE DIFFERENT SPORTS

7. CHILDREN USED OLD MAPS WITH GOOGLE MAPS, PHOTOS
AND FILM TO FORM A SENSE OF LOCAL SPORTING HISTORY

8. Recording
people's
memories
• Capturing people's memories
of the sporting past for the
future.
• Children prepared a list of
questions in class before going
on the field trips.
• Children had the opportunity to
ask the questions and delve in
to the reminiscences of people
who have memories of playing
sport in Shawlands 20, 30, and
even 40 years ago.

9. From sporting past to sports practice

10. Pupils linked old sports photos to
Google Maps via the app
HISTORYPIN to create a ‘digital
mapping’ of sports heritage in the
south of Glasgow

11. •The school hosted a coffee morning for
parents, club representatives and sports
professionals, to view their work.

12. Intergenerational interpretation of media
sports heritage has four potential benefits:
• Creates meaning around life experience (playing and watching sport)
• It identifies a shared communal resource which are:
1. Material - photos, film, places and objects
2. Discursive - stories, traditions, experiences
• Promotes community participation within a given social configuration
(sport in the southside of Glasgow)
• Intergenerational learning creates personal histories for:
1. Children - a sense of place, civic engagement, generational.
2. Adults - pride, identification with a club/sport, generational.