the heritage has a vast educational potential for interpretation, debate and critique. For this, heritage studies should extend to the most problematic issues that affect the social world, beyond the cultural legacy. The heritage has a political, social and cultural component, and for this reason, it should be studied via controversial topics. Furthermore, the heritage does not have the same meaning or the same purpose in different places around the world, so it becomes a very living concept that is difficult to define and enables to suggest class debates, inquiry processes and issues where citizens can intervene.
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Critical Citizenship Education and Heritage Education
Antoni Santisteban-Fernández (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Neus González-Monfort (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), and Joan Pagès-Blanch (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1978-3.ch002
Abstract
Heritage education enables us to question past societies to help us understand the present and think about the future to develop historical awareness. Heritage should be interpreted based on the implicit power relations, the stories that created it and those that now interpret it from different vantage points. Education for critical citizenship should examine the role of women or minorities when studying the heritage and call for an intercultural perspective. Heritage education is an extraordinary tool to help us understand the change and continuity in both objects and ideas, traditions and everyday life. Through heritage education, we have to develop youth critical awareness so that they reinterpret their culture based on their reality and interests.