1. Dr. Kieran McCarthy www.corkheritage.ie
Constructing Senses of Place: Cultural Heritage, Inclusion & the role of the Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project
Dr. Kieran McCarthy

2. Contexts: Historical Walking Tours
Cork Independent research project & weekly column ( )
Academic interest in landscape and memory-How a sense of place is constructed?
Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project ( ) -
- City Councillor
Contexts:

3. Kieran’s Knap Sack Themes / An Open Canvas of Heritage
Geography
Location
The Storied City
Investigating
Discovering
Celebrating
Researching
Recovering
A living past
A personal past
People’s Voices
Inheritance
History
Knowledge
Memory
Identity
Place-making
Culture
Legacies
Time
Architecture of life
Familiarity
Unknown
How we remember
Transformations
Rituals
Representations
Renewal
Recognition that heritage has multiple levers, different lenss & moving parts…

6. Bringing Heritage & Society into the Classroom: Exploring definitions, Values and Practice

7. Heritage as an economic resource, one explained everywhere as a primary component to promote tourism, economic development and rural and urban regeneration

8. (2) Heritage as a political resource in the construct of national and local identity.
Photo: Denis Dineen, Macroom

9. (3) Heritage as a means of legitimating a people’s present attitudes and actions by affirming their resemblance to past ones, which we term tradition.

10.   (4) Heritage as a harmonious experience - providing familiarity, guidance and escape

11. (5) Heritage as a means of fixing meanings to places

12. Heritage as A Way of Life Hi Story
Cherish
Time
Real
Layers
Change
Understanding

13. Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project, 2002-2019
Towards a Sense of Place: - The Values of Local Heritage in the Classroom
Discover Cork: Schools’ Heritage Project,

14. (a)  The study of local events, people and their life-styles is immediate and tangible for a child

15. (c)  Stimulates interest in the features of the locality - Children can become familiar and learn to learn the value of the local environment  

16. (d)  Stimulates enthusiasm about the past and appeals to children’s sense of curiosity, their emotions and imaginations

17. (e) Fosters the child’s aesthetic awareness

18. (f)  Promotes a sense of responsibility for the care and enhancement of the local environment

19. (g)  Children can learn to appreciate the elements of the past which have given them and their locality a sense of identity

20. (h)  Engages children in lively, purposeful activity in the classroom and in extensive exploration of the local environment

21. (i) Provide excellent opportunities for integrated studies

22. (j)   Develop apart from historical skills, wider skills of co-operation, communications and problem – solving   

23. Some Conclusions: Different heritage levers at play
Engaging the next generation a must
A Way of Life
Make Heritage personal
Make Heritage creative
Make Heritage cross-disciplinary
Celebrate the different voices of Heritage