Heritage

Contentspeace and heritage education: where to start?27and from community to community. A school with underprivileged children in ametropolitan area has different interests from a school in a wealthy residential neighbourhood.Moreover, many differences arise in a single school, including differencesin population and background. It is, of course, also important whether a region has aconnection to the sea or maritime traditions.Thus, to begin the project means first asking questions: How is the class composed?What do students and parents consider important? What kind of values do our youthconsider important, and how does this relate to our values? How do we decide whichproject we want to set up? What connections does the region have to underwater culturalheritage, or to the First World War?The ‘Non-Violence’(or ‘Knotted Gun’) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärdon display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza. © Rick Bajornas/UN PhotoThe Teaching ObjectiveThe teaching objective answers the question: ‘What do we want to accomplish?’ Afterwe define the starting point (i.e. the legitimation or reason), we focus on the destination.By organizing a project on underwater cultural heritage and the First World War,we not only want to teach respect for heritage, but also to reflect on how to create abetter society based on understanding and sharing this heritage. As an end result of