Heritage

Contentsassessment points for peace education based on heritage45phy and graphic design departments to promote and convey their peace messages bycreating a set of contemporary ‘propaganda’ posters.3 posters created by the Art department of the Municipal Secondary School Cadix ©Municipal Schools of the City of Antwerp – Photo by Jan Landautt Teaching tipIn the publication, The Great War and the Sea, 4 Alfons Staelens recounts his experienceof the Great War as an eight-year-old child in a Belgian coastal village. Goingto school was not a certainty, as teachers had fled or were fighting on the front lines.Children were forced to keep the dykes free of sand – and then there was the famine.Children often gathered mussels clandestinely on the breakwaters in order to at leasthave something to eat.Even today, many children are victims of a war somewhere in the world. Students cancollect examples. How do we address this today? Do we have tools to provide betterprotection for children in war?to Teaching optionSome children have experienced war first hand. They have fled from war zones andfound refuge in a host country. Some of them have difficulty talking about it. Psychologicalassistance for children who have experienced armed conflict is one of the4 P. Deschoolmeester, 2013, ‘Sea Feeling’, The Great War and the Sea. Special issue 36, November, p. 103,Oostende: Vliz.