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What is Critical Heritage Studies

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education
They focus on the present, because it is in the present when we accept the responsibility for conserving the heritage; the present is the vantage point from which we interpret its meaning and relate it to certain identities. The heritage is a cultural asset as well as a social and political instrument for redefining our cultures, which should not simply be assimilated; instead, the new generations should evaluate it, critically interpret it and confer new meanings on it.
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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.
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