Heritage Education promotes knowledge, understanding and respect for the diversity of cultures, identities and values present in the School (teachers, students, community).

Heritage Education mobilizes cultural diversity and the meeting of cultures to build knowledge and the citizenship process.

Objectives

• Improve the quality of internal and external communication of projects, valuing the work carried out by students, teachers, parents, technicians and the educational community in general; 
• Publicize the work carried out by the Schools through various actions; 
• Mobilize entities/resources to overcome difficulties and value the work carried out by the Schools.

Action

Support and accompany Schools in the design and organization of projects that promote and value the different cultures, values and identities of the communities present; Organize and promote awareness-raising and training actions in a work context and to value active, meaningful, affective and playful methodologies for teachers, students, parents and the educational community in general, particularly in heritage education, creative expography and project work.

Research Team

• Luísa Janeirinho - Ministério da Educação
• Pedro Abrantes - Gabinete do Ministro da Educação
• Judite Primo
• Maria Neves Gonçalves
• Mário Moutinho
• Nathália Pamio Luiz
• Pedro Leite

Partners

• Ministry of Education/IGEC - General Inspectorate of Education and Science
• Alto Comissariado para as Migrações, ACM
• Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Mulheres Ciganas Portuguesas AMUCIP
• Direção-Geral de Educação
• Núcleo de Apoio às Comunidades
• Rede Nacional das Escolas Associadas da UNESCO Secretaria de Estado Para a Cidadania e Igualdade, SECI
• Departament of Museology of Lusófona University