Bringing new perspectives on educational resources together, this book considers how a range of learning materials can be used to effectively highlight creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning.

Part 1: Places 1. Choreographing the Rjukan-Notodden industrial heritage: Uses of heritage in the Cultural Schoolbag 2. Museums and the socio-material emergence of curiosity 3. “An ‘Acropolis’ in miniature” and a house that “must be filled with spirit and content”: Ideals of Bildung in the building of two Scandinavian schools in the 1920s 4. Street names as monuments and a starting point for teaching historical knowledge 5. Reboot and gather your thoughts. Place-based writing as a learning resource for novice scholars 6. Discovering ecologies of learning in place-conscious education Part 2: Activities and artefacts 7. A war souvenir as learning resource 8. Working with twenty-first-century skills through engaging with indigenous perspectives in teacher education 9. Play-based learning discourses in the Norwegian and English curricula 10. Critical thinking in the 1950s: Language dispute, textbooks and newspaper debates in a Norwegian upper secondary school 11. Into the woods: Forestation as education 12. Songs in English-language education: A well-known resource used in the twenty-first century Part 3: New Media 13. Teaching about pornography: A historical perspective on educational resources 14. Gamers’ perspectives on the First World War: Developing historical consciousness using video games in teacher education 15. Roles in peer interaction in comment sections in educational blogs 16. Redesign as method in critical literacy education