Module 1

Types of Cultural Heritage > >

Cultural heritage is a complex system, often based on values and emotions rather than objects. Therefore, it can be broken down to further categories. 

• Tangible, or physical cultural heritage includes objects, buildings and works of art. These are further divided into movable and immovable cultural heritage. Immovable heritage consists of buildings and monuments, which themselves can contain works of art, such as frescos, carvings, stained glass windows or organs. Movable heritage includes – amongst others – books, documents and clothing. 
• Intangible cultural heritage consists of non-physical aspects of culture, such as social customs at a particular time in history, social values, spiritual beliefs, etc. Tangible cultural heritage (physical objects) can always be interpreted alongside intangible cultural heritage (political, philosophical, social or spiritual values at a certain point in history). Intangible cultural heritage is more difficult to preserve. 
• Digital cultural heritage can be defined as embracing “cultural, educational, scientific and administrative resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources” . 
• Natural heritage is also an important part of a society's heritage, including the countryside and natural environment or natural reserves. 

ACTIVITY

What Is Cultural Heritage?

How do you think cultural heritage can be best preserved?

My opinion

Cultural Heritage can be preserved:

1. by knowing one's backround, tangible, intagible, digital and natural heritage of their ancestors
2. by understanding it and aknowledge its added value for their lives
3. by working on that in schools during history lessons and other curricula projects
4. by respecting others' cultural background

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1.2 2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage

ACTIVITY

Please come up with and describe in a few sentences a potential activity/event for the European Year of Cultural Heritage that you could organize in your community!

My opinion

A potential activity or event that comes in my mind is to create a map where all partners pin their 

• traditional recipes
• local dances
• valuable monuments

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1.3 Cultural Heritage in Education

ACTIVITY

Is cultural heritage included in the curriculum of your school? If so, please share with your peers where you are from and how cultural heritage is represented in your curriculum.

My opinion

Cultural Heritage is included in the greek curriculum, not as a separate course of course, but throughout the courses of History, Language, Art, Music  and Environmental Studies. For example, in Language, we work on documents that are relevant to myths, traditional food and dances etc. In History, the students learn about greek civilization. In Art, we study artists, like painters and sculptors.

1.4 Introduction to Europeana

ACTIVITY

Have you had a look at the Europeana website? What is your first impression? Do you see some contents that could be useful in your classes? 

My opinion

I had a look at Europeana's website and it left me a great impression because I can find many different resources for my classes. I am thinking about planning a project on paintings, so this website will be a great help for my students. In the section "Collections" Europeana Art, I found that I can 

"Explore 1,790,840 artworks from European collections"

I searched on the Greek painter Nikolaos Gyzis and found this:

"Behold the Bridegroom Arriving" 

(The second coming of Christ)

     Description

     Great painter Nikolaos Gyzis had strong religious and metaphysical feelings  

     and questions in the latter part of his life. It is in this context that the 

     magnificent, transcendental work on the Second Coming was born. The             artist did many studies in preparation for this work.

I am thinking of having my students search on Greek painter with religious topics on their art works.

I am inspired by Europeana's website.

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1.5 The Learning Scenario, Step 1

In this course, you will produce a lesson plan that will help and inspire other teachers to use cultural heritage lessons with their students. It should be based on this template (also available in ODT format and PDF format). Throughout the MOOC, you will use Europeana Collections to find different materials and resources to create your own lesson plan.

You can see a brief overview of the learning scenario template here:

The lesson plan is divided into 10 different sections:

• Name of the author
• Title of the activity
• Description with the main ideas of the activity
• ICT tools and resources (required to create the final product)
• Final product (what the teacher is planning to create)
• Relevant trends (e.g. Social Media Learning, Mobile Learning, Game-Based Learning)
• Learning objectives, skills and competences (that students will develop and demonstrate during this activity, e.g. communicative skills, computational thinking, problem-solving, etc.)
• Learner's role (what the student will be doing during this activity)
• Teacher's role (what the teacher will be doing during this activity)
• Learning space (where will the learning take place, e.g. school classroom, local library, museum, outdoors, in an online space)