Educator toolkit

Course development  (14)

  1. Community-based art education for exploring heritage

    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.

  2. Making a participant survey

    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.

  3. Who should be involved in safeguarding heritage?

    Who are the people that have a key role in safeguarding heritage?

  4. Practical tips for organising and planning education

    Here you will find practical tips on what kinds of things should be taken into account when planning and implementing an art education lesson or training, such as planning the content, choosing the right trainer and the right learning methods for each group of participants.

  5. Using external digital resources

    A description of how external digital resources and repositories can be used in an art education project, with an example from the Irish pilot.

  6. 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.

  7. Working with a heritage expert

    Tips for working with an expert in your chosen heritage field including: selecting a heritage topic, recruiting a heritage expert, working with a heritage expert, and examples of how these methods were used in the pilot studies.

  8. 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.

  9. Tips for advertising a course

    Practical tips and guidelines for advertising an education programme and recruiting participants.

  10. Exercise: Creating a timeline for a project by communal painting

    The purpose of this exercise is to involve participants in a shared process more deeply, using art to design a project timeline.

  11. Organising a site visit

    Helpful tips around organising a site visit, including understanding the purpose, choosing a location, planning and logistics and more.

  12. Exercise: Valorization of heritage in computer classes

    Digital tools play an important role in safeguarding, promoting and preserving heritage. This exercise is aimed at both students and teachers of computer science in schools as well as university students of mathematics and informatics. Such an exercise can be accessed in any context and put to use according to one's creativity.

  13. Exercise: Digital heritage

    Digital tools play an important role in safeguarding, promoting and preserving heritage. Technology has given us what we now call the third category of heritage — digital heritage. Such digital heritage can be accessed in any context and put to use according to one's creativity.

  14. 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.

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  • Kansalaisfoorumi
  • Asociatia Perseidele
  • Blue Beehive
  • Oideas Gael
  • University of Eastern Finland

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