The most important principle of community art education is that everyone can participate in making art. The process and shared experiences during the process are more important than the artistic products.
Transformative learning theory, practices and facilitation. The HEART project as a transformative process.
This theory-based toolkit unit defines ecosocial education and discusses its relationship to transformative learning and intangible cultural heritage
Participant surveys can help develop your activities, as well as giving participants an opportunity to reflect on their learning. Digital tools make participant surveys easy.
Safer space means everyone can participate in an activity without unnecessary barriers. Each group can define their own principles for creating safer space.
Considering the ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability of your educational activities helps in creating far-reaching positive effects for your work.
How many kinds of intangible cultural heritage influence people's everyday lives?
Each heritage item preserves symbols which reflect feelings, thoughts and popular beliefs. Knowing these symbols and their meanings is part of the work of folk artists who succeed in passing them on to new generations. The methodology of this exercise can be adapted to any cultural context.
A selection of exercises that can be applied to secondary school classes in history, geography, sociology, or other subjects.
This exercise trains investigation skills and puts theoretical notions into practice by analysing and observing heritage objects in museum settings.
The exercise can be applied to adult education as well as to students. The aim of this exercise is to learn the basic values of heritage and what is meant by authenticity and uniqueness in a heritage context.
One of the basic criteria that an artefact or a tradition must meet in order to qualify as heritage is age. This practical exercise helps students to understand this principle, to critically analyse a given item and to make value judgements. It can be adapted to any context that aims at heritage education.
This exercise is used to learn about ancestral symbols used in different cultures. This exercise can be used in English classes, intercultural education, or Art History.
The practical activity of learning a traditional craft can lead to a rich understanding of the intangible heritage that surrounds it. Here, the example is a very typical Spanish piece of pottery: the “botijo” (earthenware pitcher).
A selection of useful tools from the LIVIND project, which focused on living heritage and sustainability
The exercise can be used in adult education as well as in schools. It fosters the ability to analyse heritage artefacts and identify cultural particularities.
