Lesson 5: Cultural Heritage and diversity teaching as an educational tool

Heritage Education

Heritage education is an approach to teaching and learning about history and culture that uses information available from the material culture and the human and built environments as primary instructional resources. (Hunter, 1990)

With rising awareness of heritage conservation in 1970s, the idea of Heritage in Education of school children became more prominent in Europe.

Starting from early 1980s the French started with heritage classes at schools, followed by an initiative about European Heritage Classes devised under Council of Europe at the end of the 1980s.

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