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Heritage Education and
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July to December 2008 |
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Teacher Training
Workshops on Setting up
Heritage Clubs
Heritage Education and
Communication Service
conducted teacher
training workshops in
Kodaikanal in Tamil
Nadu; and Gwalior and
Datia in Madhya Pradesh
in August 2008. In
Kodaikanal workshop,
nature trails were
organized to make them
aware of the local
plants and their needs.
In Gwalior, the site
visit was to the Gujari
Mahal and the State
Archaeological Museum
whereas in Datia,
teachers visited the
Vijay Mahal with a local
expert. The workshops
were extremely
successful as teachers
responded and
participated very
actively in the
sessions. 15 schools
have already started
Heritage Clubs in these
places after the
workshops.
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Teachers on a
nature trail in
Kodaikanal
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Gwalior Workshop
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Teachers working
in a group
during the
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Datia workshop
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Children’s Programmes
Nationwide painting
contest on ‘Children
from Historic Towns in
India’
In the past few years,
HECS has conducted a
series of programmes to
encourage students’
participation across
INTACH Chapters through
Navratna (Nine starts of
My City), painting
competitions, essay and
slogan competitions,
etc.
Next in this series was
a Painting Contest
entitled ‘Children
from Heritage Towns of
India’. All INTACH
Chapters were invited to
be part of this by
involving schools in
their respective
Chapters. 25 Chapters
participated in this
Contest by sending over
1500 paintings from
schools in these
Chapters. We appreciate
the efforts of these
Convenors for
encouraging schools to
participate in this
contest. HECS also
conducted an
on-the-spot painting
competition for Delhi
Schools on Aug 6,
2008 on the theme
‘Historic Cities of
India’.
The similar themes of
the these two painting
contests aimed to make
students aware of the
fact that they live in a
historic country with
many historic
cities/towns, each
having a distinctive
heritage and culture,
and develop a concern
for their preservation
and conservation.
The best entries of the
two contests will be
published in the
Heritage Souvenir for
ARCC and as greeting
cards.
Films by Heritage
Club Members
Heritage Club of
Bluebells International
School prepared two
films on Delhi’s
heritage made by
students – one on Qutub
Minar and other on
Humanyun’s Tomb, which
were screened at the
INTACH Central Office.
This is a good way of
involving and
encouraging students to
be aware of their
heritage and the need to
protect it.
HECS will be happy to
know of such efforts by
Heritage Clubs across
the INTACH Chapters and
receive films/creative
resource material on
local heritage prepared
by Heritage Club
members.
Young INTACH
Newsletter
The July – September
2008 issue of the Young
INTACH newsletter was
based on the theme
Trees and Traditions
and was very well
received by Convenors
and Heritage Club
members.
Citizenship Education
and Heritage
As part of its efforts
to prepare a module for
Citizenship Education
and Heritage for INTACH
Chapters and Convenors,
in July 2008 HECS
conducted an interactive
session with the
students of Bluebells
School International and
St. Mary’s School; and
few experts from
different fields in
Delhi to discuss the
role of young people as
responsible citizens and
what all they can do to
protect India’s rich
heritage.
Filmit
India Project
HECS has
developed a number of
innovative programmes
using mass media like
radio and film to spread
awareness about
heritage. The latest
innovation is called
Filmit India.
This is a
multi-cultural project
that aims at nurturing
cultural understanding,
care and concern amongst
school children, in
India and England,
through the exciting
experience of making and
sharing films. It aims
to help children to
better understand the
physical and cultural
environment, in which
they live, and the
contributions made by
different cultures and
communities.
The Filmit India program
was especially designed
for such cross-cultural
sharing between students
to enable them to tell
their story, share their
cultural uniqueness, to
express their excitement
on a variety of topics
with students in other
schools and countries.
This pilot project is
being funded by the
Helen Hamlyn Trust. 12
schools were selected in
this phase in Delhi and
65 schools in UK.
Two workshops were held
in the months of August
and September. The first
workshop was a content
workshop to introduce
the teachers from
selected schools, to the
objectives and to gain
their support for this
project. The themes and
content of the films
were agreed upon by the
teachers.
Middle school teachers
teaching social sciences
and languages attended
this workshop. This gave
the workshop a
multidisciplinary thrust
as teachers integrated
heritage learning with a
number of disciplines.
The second workshop was
a one day technical
workshop organized for
teachers to introduce
them to the camera,
process of film making,
editing and other
technical details. In
all 40 teachers and 30
students were trained.
In the month of October,
as part of the programme
to enhance content
development for the
films, INTACH together
with Sanskriti
Pratishthan organized
Pottery Workshops for
the students. Students
also visited the
Terracotta and Everyday
Life Museums at
Anandgram. More than 300
students were trained in
pottery making and
showed tremendous
enthusiasm in learning
new skills.
By November 2008
children had created
more than 35 short films
on the following topics
school life, family
life, festivals, and
their city. These films
have received These
films have been uploaded
on to the Filmit website
and shared with students
in United Kingdom. This
is the first
international heritage
education venture of
HECS, INTACH and we are
preparing to celebrate
it with a film festival
in January. We will be
inviting students from
the schools and they
would share their
experiences of learnings
from the project. In the
next phase it is planned
to cover other cities. |
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