Heritage Landscapes, Museums and Portuguese Culture

This course aims to empower participants by raising awareness about safeguarding and promoting distinctive culture, cuisine, arts and sustainable tourism assets.

This is essential to balance against the latest globalised food trends that impact our planet, health, local economies and the European identity expressed on multiple social and biographical identities.

It also intends to use Museums, nature and urban landscapes as agents of sustainable development and as educational work for heritage dissemination, both in formal and informal education areas as a relevant reference point in the case of formal education.

Learning Outcomes

• Explore the cultural dynamics of each curriculum through experimental and scientific expertise, using the resources that interactive centers have to offer;
• Raise awareness for natural heritage preservation by creating science interpretative centers;
• Develop participants’ learning validation through methods that are suitable for informal heritage environments;
• Use interactive and participative working methods to achieve better teaching practices;
• Develop a European dimension of the teaching-learning process;
• Deepen European values, policies and educational philosophy through heritage sites and landmarks;
• Provide teachers with an insight into Porto’s culture and heritage;
• Enhance communicative competence in English;
• Transfer and share core values, experiences and effective teaching practices with other teachers and colleagues;
• Promote intercultural awareness;
• Facilitate experience and cultural exchanges between European participants and Portuguese teaching personnel, which results in a fruitful international experience;
• Develop social and soft skills.