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

How to Teach about Heritage?

In 2006, the Council of Europe defined heritage education as a teaching approach based on cultural heritage, incorporating active educational methods, cross-curricular approaches and partnerships between professionals from the fields of education and culture, and employing the widest variety of methods of communication and expression.

Following aims have been emphasized:

Raising young people’s awareness of their cultural environment and the necessity of protecting it.
Promoting mutual understanding and tolerance.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein Project number: 2020-1-EL01-KA204-079099].

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