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Bringing Living Heritage to the Classroom in Asia-Pacific

Application 03-22-2022 ~ 12-31-2026
Learning 04-22-2022 ~ 12-31-2026(245 Weeks)
Course ID 2026_80_CL005_5_0_

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  • Downloadable Certificate
    Earn a certificate upon the course completion

  • 100% Free

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About the Course

This course provides key resources and guidance for teachers and people interested in education and culture on why and how to integrate living heritage in their lessons and extracurricular activities in the school. Such lessons and activities aim to make learning more contextualized, relevant and engaging for students while they help raise awareness about the importance of safeguarding living heritage. 

 

By the end of the course, the participant will: 

  • Understand the benefits of using ICH in school programmes and activities.
  • Gain capacity to develop lessons or activities, with at least one lesson or activity developed as part of the course.
  • Build synergy with other education programs such as Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship Education or Social and Emotional Learning, etc.
  • Identify opportunities to develop more lessons or activities in her/his school context.

 

Whoever you are — policymaker, school director, teacher, student, parent, heritage practitioner — you have a vital role to play in this process.

 

 

Instructor

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UNESCO Bangkok

As the only UN agency specifically mandated with the responsibility for promoting creativity and safeguarding the world’s diverse cultural heritage, UNESCO has a unique role to play among inter-governmental organs in demonstrating that development has a human face which is specific to each region of the world and special to each community. In a time of unprecedented economic and social change, UNESCO must take the lead to ensure that the Asia-Pacific region’s diverse histories, cultures and habitants are not only preserved, but also tapped as a well-spring of innovation and development, thus being imbued with renewed relevance.

Since 1961, UNESCO Bangkok has had a dual role as both the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and as a Cluster Office in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

As a regional bureau for education, UNESCO Bangkok provides technical expertise and assistance, and it serves advisory, knowledge production and sharing, and monitoring and evaluation functions to assist the Asia-Pacific Member States, UNESCO field offices, and the antenna office in the area of education.

 

As a cluster office, UNESCO Bangkok helps to implement all UNESCO programmes (education, sciences, culture, and communication and information) in Thailand, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Singapore, and indirectly in Viet Nam and Cambodia, in cooperation with the country offices and the antenna office.

 

 

ICHCAP

International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO

 

The International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP) was established as a UNESCO Category 2 centre in 2011. Working within the framework of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, we operate information and networking programs to support UNESCO’s strategic plans among the forty-eight Member States of the Asia-Pacific region, with the ultimate goal of promoting the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals through intangible cultural heritage. We believe that safeguarding intangible cultural heritage is necessary to promote cultural diversity and sustainable development in the region.

ICHCAP aims to promote intangible cultural heritage (ICH) by safeguarding activities of individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, and countries through the management and effective sharing of information and cultural data focusing on ICH. We establish networks among communities, groups, and individuals to help transmit and share ICH. Furthermore, ICHCAP’s promotion of the value of ICH and raising public awareness about cultural assets, domains of knowledge, and practices relevant to ICH safeguarding shape conducive conditions for the protection of living heritage. In recent years, promotional activities for the visibility of ICH safeguarding have sparked greater public interest and contributed to the inter-generational transmission of living heritage, garnering improved participation from the youth.

 

 

APCEIU

Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO

 

The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) was established in 2000 as a UNESCO Category 2 centre to promote education for a Culture of Peace. APCEIU is working in close collaboration with UNESCO Offices, National Commissions of Member States, related educational institutes, and civil society to promote global citizenship education (GCED) under the framework of education for international understanding (EIU) toward a Culture of Peace.

APCEIU has devoted itself to strengthening GCED/EIU capacities by pursuing its philosophy and policies through training teachers and teacher trainers; research and policy development; developing educational materials and programs; organizing different levels of workshops and conferences; and strengthening the network of teachers, educators, experts, civil society leaders, and other stakeholders.

 

List of Instructors

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Vanessa Achilles
Culture Unit UNESCO Bangkok
Linina Phuttitarn
Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp

Course Reviews

  • LUIS ROGER RODRIGUEZ
    A nice course, very useful for my workplace.
  • Ma. Lorella Arabit-Zapatos
    A very informative course on ICH.
  • Jing Chen
    An excellent and valuable course! The lectures are clear and the examples are very representative—every module is full of useful takeaways for teachers. But is the course evaluation still in progress? Could you please inform me of its deadline? I just finished this course.
  • Volavee Kittithanasak Volavee Kittithanasak
    This course offers an engaging introduction to intangible cultural heritage, balancing theory with vivid real-world examples. The lessons are well-structured and make complex ideas feel accessible, even for beginners. A great choice if you want to understand how living traditions connect communities across time and place.
  • Shah Mohmmad Abdul Mabud
    This course is really essential for a teacher to promote their local cultures especially the Inheritable cultural heritage globally. UNESCO can cooperate with respective ministries and divisions to desseminate the ICHs around the world and fund all the ICH based projects under APCEIU to enhance the global understanding for peace in the fractured world.
  • Chimi Dema
    I find out this course is very useful for teachers, as they can use this approach for their pedagogical style in class. In some cases, Unesco can cooperate with ministry of education to disseminate to teachers in Cambodia. One more thing is the video is very interesting but I suggest you use mic which helps us hear better.
  • Carol Cepillo
    After completing all the required activities on the GCED online self-phased course, I found it a highly rewarding experience and flexible learning experience. The course allowed me to set my own schedule and learn at my own pace. The content of the course was comprehensive, well-organized, and supported by excellent materials. The course was really challenging. I am glad I was able to finish the course. Thank you for the opportunities given to become part of this course.
  • Malcolm Isaac Fernandez
    The GCED course on Bringing Living Heritage to the Classroom in Asia-Pacific offers an invaluable opportunity to empower educators with the knowledge and tools to foster cultural preservation and intercultural understanding among students, making it an exceptional program worth every moment.
  • Maria Gulraize Khan
    Having worked in both education and culture sectors at the policy development and programme management level I thought this was a great course bridging the basic skillsets needed by professionals of both sectors. The linkages in Module 5 with mother tongue language based education, social and emotional learning, GCED and ESD were very useful for future articulation and there were some great examples shared during the whole course.
  • Marites Hugo
    It makes me aware of the significant value of the different culture that might be able to help me out to deliver my lessons effectively.
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