Cultural Heritage Education through the School Library

Ref.: 48
Área temática: 01 Integridad física de los paisajes urbanos históricos
Fecha de recepción: 15/11/2008

AUTORES (* Autor principal)

MARQUARDT, Luisa * (Italia) - Università degli Studi « Roma Tre »

ABSTRACT

The cultural heritage is often put at risk by quick changes and developments in societies and in the labour market. Educating pupils and students in the cultural heritage field is a way to protect and exploit the richness and the tradition of the cultural roots. This education should make pupils and students perceive such a heritage as their own.

Libraries play an important role in preserving the memory of the past as a means to interpret the present and plan the future. Furthermore, the library is no more a fortress where the books are kept "safe and sound": it now has to be conceived as a learning and social environment.

This contribution aims at reflecting upon:
· the school library both as a cultural and an educational environment
· its role in educating the increasing number of digital born generations in the appreciation of cultural heritage. It also intends to show how digital tools can help school librarians-information specialists in their profession.

Four Italian case studies are briefly reported: the first two ones at high school level - the Liceo Classico "Ariosto" (Ferrara) and the Istituto di Istruzione di Stato "Machiavelli" (Roma) - as useful examples how a school project based on "old books" and archival documentation can reach many important objectives (cognitive, metacognitive and interpersonal) for the students involved and, in the meantime, serve the community of readers/researchers; the further two ones are about user's education at primary school level from different perspectives: from the school library ­ Circolo 2 (Agrigento) ­ and from the public library ­ the "Malatestiana" (Cesena) -, which co- operates with the schools in the local community.

The school library plays a fundamental role in pupils/students personal and cultural development: its inclusion in the curriculum and the collaboration with the public library are key factors that can effectively enhance the knowledge and the appreciation of the cultural heritage, basic factors for its protection and exploitation.

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