K1 - Incorporate heritage education more effectively in school curricula
Heritage should be part of official school curriculum or an extracurricular activity and provide relevant skills based on a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach. Heritage education helps to develop a better understanding and respect of our living environment, ourselves and the others.
K1 Challenges
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
Societal challenges
- Preserving the collective memory
K1 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
Recommended courses of action for K1
- Adapt school syllabuses
- Train teachers, instructors, etc.
- Establish a dialogue between the education sector and the departments responsible for heritage, museums, archives, libraries, etc.
- Initiate cross-disciplinary educational projects which include heritage
- Promote co-operation with associations, history societies, etc.
- Develop outside activities: visits, trips, interviews, documentaries
- Invite heritage specialists to schools
- Make digital heritage-related information more open, more accessible and more user-friendly
- Support programmes organised by museum professionals, taking place in museums