Innovative Pedagogies in Cultural Heritage

1. INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES IN
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Cultural Heritage: Cherishing the Past, Building the Future
(2018-1-CY01-ΚΑ229-046852)
JOINT STAFFTRAINING EVENT
Venice, Italy | 8-10 November 2018

2. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
 Discuss and formulate creative and engaging ways for teaching cultural heritage and
making it appealing to primary school pupils.
 Exchange knowledge and good practices on formal and informal lessons that promote
cultural discovery and exploration.
 Find ways to incorporate and address questions of cultural heritage across the range of
primary education subjects.
 Decide on improved pedagogies that meet the needs of increasingly multicultural
classrooms.
 Formulate concrete suggestions to promote respectful intercultural dialogue among
young learners.
 Find methods for teaching science (particularly the topics of natural resources and
environmental conservation) through a culturally informed perspective.

3. CULTURAL HERITAGE IN OUR CURRENT
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES
 Do national curricula incorporate cultural heritage?
 What subjects/ lessons address issues of cultural heritage the most?
 Do you have specific lessons on cultural heritage?
How can we incorporate cultural heritage in our
lessons without having a special lesson on cultural
heritage?

4. THE EU DEFINITION OF CULTURAL
HERITAGE
 FOUR PARAMETERS
 Tangible
 Intangible
 Digital
 Natural
 Do you agree with this categorization? Is everything addressed? Is
anything surprising? Is anything left out?
Which of these parameters do your current curricula
address the most?

5. THE PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE DIMENSION
OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
 PAST – learning about, cherishing, respecting our heritage.
 PRESENT –recognizing and interacting cultural heritage in our everyday
lives.
 FUTURE – actively contributing to the preservation and evolution of
cultural heritage for the future.
 Is cultural heritage something to be respected, cherished and admired
from a distance OR something to be experienced and developed?
How can we interact with cultural heritage in the
present and develop it for the future while being
respectful to the past?

6. MULTICULTURALISM
 What does it mean for a classroom to be multicultural?
 Is your student body multicultural?
 Do your lessons reflect and promote a multicultural dimension?
 When addressing cultural heritage in your classrooms (for example, a
lesson on traditions), do you have a national or multicultural perspective?
How can multiculturalism become an integral part of
our lessons?

7. CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SCIENCE
LESSONS
 The EU emphasizes the incorporation of a culturally informed perspective
in science and technology lessons.
 What is a culturally informed perspective?
 How can issues of environmental conservation be incorporated in your
existing lesson plans?
 Do your curricula include indigenous species and Natura 2000 sites?
How do cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours
influence the way science and technology are
understood?

8. SUGGESTIONS FOR INCORPORATING
CULTURAL HERITAGE IN LESSON PLANS AND
FOR CULTURALLY INFORMED LESSONS:

9. SAMPLE FOR A CULTURALLY INFORMED
LESSON PLAN
 Subject:
 Topic:
 Learning Objectives:
 Starter/ Introduction:
 Activities:
 Conclusion/ Plenary:
 Assignments/ Next Steps:
 Issues of cultural heritage incorporated in the lesson: