Who should be involved in safeguarding heritage?
Who are the people that have a key role in safeguarding heritage?
Educator toolkit
Schools (18)
Creating safer space to encourage participation
Safer space means everyone can participate in an activity without unnecessary barriers. Each group can define their own principles for creating safer space.
Sustainability in organising art education
Considering the ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability of your educational activities helps in creating far-reaching positive effects for your work.
Writing exercise: The heritage potluck
How many kinds of intangible cultural heritage influence people's everyday lives?
Writing exercise: Sensory memory
An exercise to explore a moment in time where tradition was present.
Writing exercise: An object talking about heritage
Find out something new about a tradition by changing the perspective. An object talks about human activity.
Organising a site visit
Helpful tips around organising a site visit, including understanding the purpose, choosing a location, planning and logistics and more.
Sample exercise: Field trip
Description of one sample exercise used in the Irish pilot, including step by step instructions provided by the art educator. Exercise: organising and carrying out a field trip to a local historical monument.
Sample exercise: Learning music by ear
A sample exercise used in the Irish pilot study, including step-by-step instructions provided by the art educator. Exercise: learning a piece of traditional music by ear.
Exercise: Learning the symbolism
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.
Exercises for secondary school students
A selection of exercises that can be applied to secondary school classes in history, geography, sociology, or other subjects.
Exercise: Learning the heritage technique
This working approach can be adapted to any context where the aim is to learn the craft techniques for making a heritage object based on art. In this case, painting is the field of artistic expression.
Exercise: Practise your investigation skills
This exercise trains investigation skills and puts theoretical notions into practice by analysing and observing heritage objects in museum settings.
Exercise: Study visit
Study visits to heritage sites, museums and archaeological sites aim to develop specific skills, behaviours and attitudes to understand the importance of heritage education. See this example from Romania and adapt it to your heritage area.
Exercise: Guess the age!
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.
Exercise: Comparing cultural symbols
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.
Tools from the LIVIND project
A selection of useful tools from the LIVIND project, which focused on living heritage and sustainability
Exercise: Mathematics and heritage
Heritage education can also be included in mathematics lessons. Although it seems surprising, there is compatibility between the two areas. This exercise can be used in lessons of Fun Maths or Applied Maths.
