Educational Heritage: Culture and Citizenship in Education

This article explores the axes of thought being developed from different angles concerning our educational heritage. A review of the important contributions made by research into the environment provided by educational heritage enables us to point out key changes in teaching museums today. Among these is highlighted the influence exercised by teaching
museums through their research, diffusion and training activities on the enfolding structure of teaching with explicitly cultural and civic aims. With the emergence of teaching with a cultural cast to it, teaching museums are bringing back to life the foundations and methods introduced in educational discourse at the beginning of the twentieth century, when ethnographic approaches
were put at the heart of papers and research. In addition, emphasis is placed on the fact that teaching museums are recasting their activities based on ethical approaches to education that give a central role to citizenship projects. As a result, both culture and citizenship can be seen together as the differential features driving teaching museums today. What is more,
this characterisation calls for further thought concerning the meaning and scope of the changes being introduced in museum undertakings.