Innovative Resources for the Educational and Sustainable Use of Heritage
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 33021
Special Issue Editors
Interests: teaching and learning of social sciences; heritage education; history education; museum and school collaboration; historical thinking; assessment; competences; teacher training; textbooks; education for citizenship
Interests: teaching and learning of social sciences; textbooks; historical thinking; teacher training
Interests: teaching and learning of social sciences; heritage education; history education, historical thinking; assessment; competences; teacher training; textbooks; education for citizenship
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The implementation of the 2030 Agenda and sustainability to transform our world is a project in which educational and heritage entities are making astonishing progress with their actions over the last few years. The 34th ICOM Assembly (held in Japan in 2019) already established the need to incorporate sustainability into the guiding framework for museums' internal and external practices, as well as in educational programming. Recent studies have focused on using museum and heritage resources in compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (Rivero, Navarro-Neri, García-Ceballos and Aso, 2020); other work is aimed at the creation of participatory museum funding models (Modzelewska, Skuza, Szeluga-Romanska and Materska-Samek, 2020).
UNESCO points out that culture is part of our being and shapes our identity. Without culture, there is no sustainable development. For this reason, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to the sustainability of cities and communities (Goal 11) and Quality Education (Goal 4) include the promotion of projects that value the conservation and teaching of the artistic, industrial, archaeological, historical and cultural heritage of cities, as well as the use of the resources of the environment, of heritage, to generate learning that contributes to the development of Quality Education and more sustainable use of educational resources. Heritage and its educational and sustainable use is presented as a revealing resource for the teaching-learning process in formal and non-formal education.
The focus of this special edition is on the didactic and sustainable use of heritage resources in formal and non-formal educational environments (museums, heritage interpretation centres, research centres, libraries, theatres, archaeological sites, historical archives...) as one of the most important challenges to contribute to quality education.
The scope of this Special Issue is the configuration of a library of innovative experiences and resources that enable the educational and sustainable use of the heritage and resources that communities and cities present. On the one hand, the aim is to offer useful tools, techniques and strategies to make educational and sustainable use of heritage and its resources and, on the other hand, to present teaching-learning proposals, through active methodologies that have an impact on the use and exploitation of the resources of the educational heritage environment.
The main objective of this monograph is to present innovative didactic proposals and research in which innovative resources from research centres, interpretation centres, museums, libraries, historical archives or other educational spaces are designed, used and/or evaluated for the educational and sustainable use of heritage that contributes to the development of Quality Education.
The lines of research that articulate this monograph are:
- Design, implementation and evaluation of resources and didactic proposals aimed at formal education environments for the teaching and learning of heritage and its sustainable use.
- Design, implementation and evaluation of resources and didactic proposals aimed at non-formal education environments for the teaching and learning of heritage and its sustainable use.
Dr. Ainoa Escribano-Miralles
Dr. Raquel Sánchez-Ibáñez
Prof. Dr. Pedro Miralles-Martínez
Guest Editors
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