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Cultural Heritage Education in UNESCO Cultural Conventions

  • Alicja Jagielska-Burduk,
  • Mateusz Pszczyński and
  • Piotr Stec

23 March 2021

The aim of the article is to analyse UNESCO conventions dealing with culture and assess the visibility and importance of cultural heritage education in these conventions and their implementation. First, it briefly presents the role of UNESCO in the a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Values of Cultural Heritage for Society. Greater Citizen Participation.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
15,993 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2023

The scientific management and protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) cannot be separated from continuous innovation and the public’s active participation. The evolution of the value of local cultural heritage can help prevent the loss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Resources for the Educational and Sustainable Use of Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
10,639 Views
15 Pages

Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Education Amidst Digitalisation

  • Yianna Orphanidou,
  • Leonidas Efthymiou and
  • George Panayiotou

11 February 2024

The integration of cultural heritage in education facilitates critical thinking, experiential learning, cross-cultural collaborative learning and ultimately, quality learning experiences. This process is further enhanced by the increasing adoption of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Use of Digital Technology for Sustainable Teaching and Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,398 Views
15 Pages

The “Education, Entrepreneurship and Cultural Heritage” Initiative: Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture

  • Vasiliki Brinia,
  • Maria Belloyiani,
  • Georgia Manolopoulou,
  • Georgios Tziros and ,
  • Eirini Kasiola,
  • Sofia Georgogala and
  • Stavroula Marinopoulou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 June 2024

The purpose of the present study is to underline the importance of our cultural heritage and how potential future teachers can connect education, culture, and the entrepreneurial field. The reason behind this study is the “Education, Entreprene...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,892 Views
13 Pages

2 January 2024

The topic of cultural heritage is the subject of many interdisciplinary studies. So far, these studies have focused on the issues of classifying particular types of heritage, their functions and benefits, components and determinants. However, relativ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Heritage Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,326 Views
28 Pages

Recently, young people’s historical and cultural awareness has been increasingly described as fragmented and disengaged, particularly in the context of rapid social change and “liquid modernity”. Drawing on Clio, the Muse of History...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation in Hospitality and Tourism)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,295 Views
37 Pages

Futures Literacy, as defined and promoted by UNESCO, is the capability to imagine, question, and use the future as a resource for better understanding the present and acting with intention. When applied to Cultural Heritage Education, it reframes her...

(This article belongs to the Section Arts & Humanities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,564 Views
20 Pages

Cultural Heritage in Education: Flamenco as a Pedagogical Tool for Future Teachers in Spain

  • Jesús Heredia-Carroza,
  • Laura Díaz-Reyes,
  • Daniela-Tatiana Agheorghiesei and
  • Raluca Stoica

8 January 2025

This study explores how future teachers in Spain perceive the incorporation of cultural heritage in education, with a specific focus on flamenco as a pedagogical tool. Using exploratory factor analysis and surveys from 301 participants, the research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,175 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2020

The paper analyses and discusses the perspectives of young people on World Cultural Heritage (WCH), focusing on their presumed reasons of its imbalanced global distribution. The qualitative study is based upon focus groups conducted with 43 secondary...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,039 Views
24 Pages

29 October 2024

Education and heritage are fundamental to achieving sustainable development goals. Integrating heritage into education is crucial for cultivating children’s connection to heritage and promoting sustainable development. However, the lack of a sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Agenda for Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
45,422 Views
29 Pages

6 September 2022

The preservation of cultural heritage through education and training has always been a relevant issue and, sure enough, can contribute to the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 (e.g., 4: Quality education, 8: Decent wo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Education on Cultural Heritage Analysis, Management, Conservation, and Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,776 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2025

Cultural heritage education promotes sustainability by fostering children’s emerging identity with local heritage and internalizing shared cultural values. In early childhood settings, these formative processes are shaped by preschool educators...

(This article belongs to the Topic Education for Sustainable Development and Science Teaching)
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  • Open Access
310 Views
28 Pages

DigiHerit: Enhancing Cultural Heritage Education Through Gamified Mobile Exploration

  • Konstantia Chadio,
  • Christos Orovas,
  • Nikolas Totolos and
  • Diamantis Manolis

4 October 2026

Digital technologies can provide alternative forms of access to cultural heritage sites that are physically restricted or unavailable to the public; however, their effective transformation into meaningful educational experiences requires the coordina...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Interaction in Cultural Heritage—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
13,485 Views
21 Pages

28 April 2021

Heritage education can enable social empowerment. Within the broader goal of social empowerment, a current challenge is to establish principles that promote social participation in traditional education. The practice of protecting intangible cultural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Values of Cultural Heritage for Society. Greater Citizen Participation.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,218 Views
28 Pages

Location-Based Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage Communication and Education: The Doltso District Application

  • Alexandros Kleftodimos,
  • Athanasios Evagelou,
  • Amalia Triantafyllidou,
  • Magdalini Grigoriou and
  • Georgios Lappas

22 May 2023

Location-based Augmented Reality applications are increasingly used in many research and commercial fields. Some of the fields that these applications are used are recreational digital games, tourism, education, and marketing. This study aims to pres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Educational Systems: Hardware and Software Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
231 Views
18 Pages

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is a field of cultural transmission in which communities, practices, knowledge, skills, and forms of expression are reinterpreted across generations. Its integration into teacher education can connect local cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,135 Views
32 Pages

3 January 2025

Integrating cultural heritage education into digital platforms is crucial for advancing the knowledge-based economy, as it introduces innovative methods for information dissemination and economic growth stimulation. This study investigates the synerg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Engineering Education and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,758 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2024

Cultural heritage has educational value because it provides children with a realistic learning environment and a wealth of educational resources. This study intends to fill a gap in academic research by evaluating the efficiency of utilizing cultural...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,702 Views
21 Pages

This study explores the design of Metaverse technologies for preserving and teaching Lanna Dance, a traditional cultural heritage of Northern Thailand. It addresses the challenges of sustaining intangible cultural heritage by developing an immersive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,300 Views
39 Pages

This study introduces an educational framework that merges 3D modeling with AI-assisted narrative interaction to apply digital technology in cultural heritage education, exemplified by an ancient carriage culture. Through immersive tasks and contextu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Heritage Education: Evolving Techniques and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,109 Views
20 Pages

Education in intangible cultural heritage (ICH) skills plays a vital role in cultural transmission and innovation, yet it faces persistent structural tension between the authenticity of regional culture and the standardization of modern educational s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Approaches, Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education Teaching and Learning)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,643 Views
16 Pages

1 November 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to rethink their activity in the context of social media, thus generating new ways of communicating and educating about the heritage they preserve. This article explores the indissoluble relationship established b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Heritage Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,976 Views
18 Pages

30 October 2024

As traditional cultural heritage education gradually reduces students’ exposure to the physical environment, it is more difficult to stimulate students’ awareness of and interest in local culture. The concepts of cultural preservation and...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,457 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2024

Design thinking is a set of cognitive, strategic, and practical procedures used in innovation. This article argues that this approach varies across disciplines. The contexts for this study are two higher educational frameworks where language and tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,777 Views
17 Pages

1 September 2023

To understand the significance that cultural heritage has today and, above all, the role of citizens in decision-making for its valorisation, transmission, and management, it is necessary to approach it from a very early age, specifically through chi...

(This article belongs to the Section Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,965 Views
33 Pages

24 September 2019

Medieval fortresses represent an important tangible heritage of a nation’s culture and a valuable development asset for a particular destination on which its place-branding strategy for tourism could be built upon. Traditionally in Serbia, heri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Cultural Heritage Tourism)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
662 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2026

This paper explores the role of media literacy in enhancing the educational potential of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games, particularly in the context of cultural heritage education within technology-enhanced learning environments. Rather...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Learning, Ethics and Pedagogies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,712 Views
28 Pages

30 May 2024

Combining the Intangible Cultural Heritage and sustainable development has been an important effort of UNESCO since the new century. This study discusses the suitability of educational tourism development of intangible cultural heritage. On the one h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Heritage Tourism)
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  • Open Access
1,329 Views
16 Pages

AI Avatar Storytelling as a Mediator of Visual Folk Heritage in Early Childhood Education

  • Eliza Pitri,
  • Argyro Fella,
  • Antonia Michaelidou,
  • Mariangela Mirra and ,
  • Alba Caiazzo and
  • Michele Domenico Todino
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper presents the design and pedagogical rationale of an AI-powered avatar developed to mediate Cypriot woven heritage for preschool education. The study is conceptual and design-oriented, focusing on how visual motifs from Cypriot traditional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Past for the Future: Digital Pathways in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
143 Views
25 Pages

22 October 2026

Education for sustainable development increasingly introduces scientific tools into living-heritage teaching, risking privileging measurable signals over practitioners’ knowledge. This exploratory sub-study of a broader doctoral project examine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Develop, Educate and Communicate Sustainability Through STEM Education and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,265 Views
37 Pages

30 July 2024

This study focused on the use of gamification, specifically the UrbanGame activity, to enhance heritage education related to the bombings of the Spanish Civil War in Alicante. The research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of active methodologies i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Heritage Education: Evolving Techniques and Methods)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3,049 Views
19 Pages

Connecting Guarani Culture to Space—An Intangible Heritage in the Solar System Science and Education Framework: A Review

  • Jesús Martínez-Frías,
  • Estelvina Rodríguez-Portillo,
  • Tatiana Wieczorko Barán,
  • Victor Daniel Vera Gamarra and ,
  • Gabiota Teresita Mendoza and
  • Clara Inés Villalba Alderete
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 November 2025

Humanity is opening up to cosmos in all its dimensions and areas of knowledge. In this context, Paraguay, due to its multicultural uniqueness and two official languages (Spanish and Guaraní), represents an emblematic example of how legends, tr...

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  • Open Access
1,297 Views
58 Pages

30 July 2026

Against the background of deepening culture–tourism integration and growing concern for cultural sustainability, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) educational tourism has become an important means of connecting cultural communication, educatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Heritage Tourism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,909 Views
29 Pages

24 February 2026

This article examines the relationship between cultural heritage education and the prevention of school dropout, presenting and validating the Q-PEPAS (Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Heritage Education and School Dropout). Unlike exis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
17,784 Views
23 Pages

Food Heritage Makes a Difference: The Importance of Cultural Knowledge for Improving Education for Sustainable Food Choices

  • Suzanne Kapelari,
  • Georgios Alexopoulos,
  • Theano Moussouri,
  • Konstantin J. Sagmeister and
  • Florian Stampfer

18 February 2020

This paper presents findings from a study carried out as part of BigPicnic, a European Commission’s Horizon 2020 project. BigPicnic brought together members of the public, scientists, policy-makers and industry representatives to develop exhibi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Quality, Price and Consumer Choices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,000 Views
21 Pages

Outdoor Education, the Enhancement and Sustainability of Cultural Heritage: Medieval Madrid

  • María-Luisa Gómez-Ruiz,
  • Francisco-José Morales-Yago and
  • María-Luisa de Lázaro-Torres

21 January 2021

Education has a crucial role to play in helping meet the Sustainable Development Goals, for which the initial training of university teachers, and its evaluation, are all essential. In this context, the authors developed an outdoor work task, consist...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographical Education for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,184 Views
17 Pages

27 May 2021

This work is the result of a study on the characteristics that define some of the museums created on the Silk Road. The approach to these museums has focused especially on the observation of the educational and heritage aspects that define these inst...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,179 Views
12 Pages

Learning to Care: Exploring the Missing Intersection Between Cultural Heritage and Risk Education in Childhood

  • Sara Fiorentino,
  • Anna Casarotto,
  • Ilenia Falbo,
  • Giacomo Sigismondo and
  • Mariangela Vandini

Although child-centred approaches are increasingly adopted in disaster risk reduction (DRR) education, cultural heritage remains largely absent from pedagogical models addressing risk, agency, and community belonging. This study explores how heritage...

(This article belongs to the Section Early Childhood Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,255 Views
23 Pages

Immersive technologies—such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and extended reality (XR)—are increasingly adopted in cultural heritage settings to support education, public engagement, and digital preserv...

(This article belongs to the Section Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,205 Views
19 Pages

Education in Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Redesigning Atayal Weaving Loom

  • Rungtai Lin,
  • I-Ying Chiang,
  • Yuma Taru,
  • Yajuan Gao and ,
  • John G. Kreifeldt,
  • Yikang Sun and
  • Jun Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 November 2022

Employing cultural ergonomics concepts to product innovation for cultural education and sustainable development is the target of this study. Atayal culture is famous for its weaving craft and art. The Atayal tribe of Taiwanese aborigines weave on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Hi-Tech to Hi-Touch: A Global Perspective of Design Education and Practice)
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,717 Views
11 Pages

14 February 2021

In higher-education world heritage sites, the conservation and energy retrofitting of heritage buildings (HBs) is an important vector for their development, competitiveness and welfare. To guarantee their ongoing use, these buildings must be adapted...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Behavior and Energy Efficiency of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
12,786 Views
22 Pages

12 November 2020

Digital storytelling can offer multiple benefits both to students and teachers, and new media provide multimodal ways to produce, transmit and communicate stories. In parallel, the need to engage preschool children with the creative use of technology...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainability in the Era of Mobile Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,743 Views
16 Pages

Perceptions of Heritage among Students of Early Childhood and Primary Education

  • José A. López-Fernández,
  • Silvia Medina,
  • Miguel J. López and
  • Roberto García-Morís

25 September 2021

In recent decades, a growing awareness of the importance of preserving cultural heritage as a means of promoting sustainable development has been accompanied by a similar re-evaluation of the role of heritage education as a key driver of citizen enga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Values of Cultural Heritage for Society. Greater Citizen Participation.)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,196 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2021

In Taiwan, preservation and training policies of intangible cultural assets are highly valued by the government. In this study, lacquerware art craft education as intangible cultural heritage is the subject of this study. We conducted in-depth interv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Hi-Tech to Hi-Touch: A Global Perspective of Design Education and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,660 Views
13 Pages

8 January 2024

The paper in question is focused on (1) valuing the expanded and transdisciplinary approach for the definition of cultural heritage, consolidated in Brazil from the 1970s/1980s onwards, (2) and its subsequent applicability in the field of education,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Heritage Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,993 Views
27 Pages

11 April 2023

Higher education has recently become an essential path to inheriting ICH in China. This research shows consideration about the protection of ICH. Using the ICH inheriting Xiamen d embroidery class undertaken at the Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Resources for the Educational and Sustainable Use of Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,214 Views
21 Pages

Cultural Heritage and Methodological Approaches—An Analysis through Initial Training of History Teachers (Spain–England)

  • Cosme J. Gómez-Carrasco,
  • Pedro Miralles-Martinez,
  • Olaia Fontal and
  • Alex Ibañez-Etxeberria

27 January 2020

Research on heritage education has progressed remarkably and a large number of studies point to a greater presence of active methodologies and the use of resources and primary sources in the classroom. At this point it seems important to investigate...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,264 Views
16 Pages

Musical Heritage as a Means of Sustainable Development: Perceptions in Students Studying for a Degree in Primary Education

  • Marta Martínez-Rodríguez,
  • José Manuel Hernández-de la Cruz,
  • Borja Aso and
  • Carlos D. Ciriza

18 May 2022

Education is an essential vehicle for valuing cultural legacy, and musical heritage is a part of that cultural legacy that we must protect as it is one of the main areas of intangible cultural heritage, a reflection of cultural diversity, and a conve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Resources for the Educational and Sustainable Use of Heritage)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,462 Views
13 Pages

The Status of Didactic Models for Heritage Education: A Systematic Review

  • Yenifer Karina Valencia Arnica,
  • Jackeline Lorena Ccasani Rodriguez,
  • Fabian Hugo Rucano Paucar and
  • Fabiola Talavera-Mendoza

8 December 2023

Heritage education is very important because it implies a holistic and transdisciplinary approach, where teachers must use resources and educational proposals that promote the conservation, appreciation, and care of heritage. The objective of this st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research in Heritage Education: Transdisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,634 Views
21 Pages

10 February 2025

Cultural heritage refers to the set of tangible and intangible assets that a society inherits from its ancestors and transmits to future generations. The training of future teachers in this subject is vital, as they will be responsible for using reso...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)

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