ELE - Contexts
Cultural Heritage
Extension Activities:
Your Mission:
- Investigative the reconstruction of cultural heritage and the formation of national and regional identities.
- Has globalisation had an irreversible impact on naturall cultures?
- How have Amercian social and cultural features impacted upon other national identities and national images?
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Social impact on Cultural Heritage
CULTURAL HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Popular culture it has been argued that popular culture would utlimately affect or destroy individual cultures. Do you agree?
'New Age Thinking' on the other hand there were those who believe that people who embraced popular culture were 'enlightened and free'.
What Is Cultural heritage ?
Cultural heritage is based on aspects of our past that we want to keep, appreciate and pass on to future generations. These elements reflect our history, and can evoke special meaning for us as individuals or as members of a community. [The concept of heritage in our time is an open one, reflecting living culture every bit as much as that of the past].
Cultural heritage forms our individual, local and national identities. It shapes relationships with our neighbors and with other communities around the world.
Cultural heritage can be defined as those things and places associated with human activity. [The definition is very broad, and includes both Indigenous and historic values.]
Outcome:To understand the slow move towards development of a 'global' culture.
Project Question:
What defines natural cultures?
Develop your own area of interest and formulate questions that you want answered and relate to your understanding of 'cultural heritage'. For example
1. the major social features of a particular culture, or
2. has changes in technology impacted on 'cultures', or
3. the effect of war and potential damage to, and destruction of, cultural heritage sites.
Outcome:
To explore an understanding of how the lines between natural cultures are becoming a little blurred.
Project Question:
Discuss whether the idea that American culture has been good for the world (or choose a country of your own choice)
Overview:
Students will develop their own understanding of Cultural Heritage as encompasses several main categories of heritage: -
- Tangible cultural heritage: movable cultural heritage (paintings, sculptures, coins, manuscripts, etc.)
- immovable cultural heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, and so on) .
- underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins and cities)
- Intangible cultural heritage (oral traditions, performing arts, rituals)
- Natural heritage (natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapes, physical, biological or geological formations)
- Heritage in the event of armed conflict.
This unit of study focuses on: human actions, ideas, customs and knowledge as being the most important aspects of heritage - therefore cultural heritage, put simply is what we value from the past.
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