Creative Education

Volume 12, Issue 12 (December 2021)

ISSN Print: 2151-4755   ISSN Online: 2151-4771

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Primary School Class Teachers’ Attitudes towards Teaching Contents of Cultural Heritage

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2021.1212205    254 Downloads   1,352 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

Teacher plays an important role in shaping and internalizing students’ cultural values and consequently promotes conservation of cultural heritage, especially through teaching specific areas of social sciences. The article presents the empirical research that was conducted among 395 Slovenian primary school class teachers. The purpose of the research was to evaluate teachers’ attitudes towards teaching cultural heritage. The results indicate that the surveyed teachers believe it is necessary to promote students’ awareness of cultural heritage, since this encourages students to care for and protect cultural heritage. In addition, the surveyed teachers believe that students’ care for and protection of cultural heritage would increase, if they could create their own mini museum or exhibit historic objects at school. The results also indicate that throughout the school year and when dealing with the contents of cultural heritage, teachers most often focus on knowledge, such as learning about old objects, monuments, values, beliefs, experience and feeling.

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Hegediš, P. and Hus, V. (2021) Primary School Class Teachers’ Attitudes towards Teaching Contents of Cultural Heritage. Creative Education, 12, 2781-2791. doi: 10.4236/ce.2021.1212205.

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