Active Citizenship and Educational Museum Programs : A Case Study

Christiana Charalampopoulou (1)

1 EFTS - Education, Formation, Travail, Savoirs

In a constantly changing world where collective values have given up to individualism, school fails to answer to the demands of society. Meanwhile, there is a crucial need of active responsible citizens via citizenship education which is associated to humanity and universal values. Due to school insufficiencies, museums seem to have undertaken the role of mediators between education and culture, heritage and history, through which pupils are more likely to develop an active citizenship. Our research stresses the question of transmitting values to children via museum education and, in particular, via an educational museum project which takes place in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece.

Mots clés: museum education; citizenship; citizenship education; values; active citizen

Domaines: Education

Christiana Charalampopoulou. Active Citizenship and Educational Museum Programs : A Case Study. 3rd South-European and Mediterranean Conference on “Citizenship, Identity and Culture: Inclusive society in crisis”, May 2011, Patras, Greece. ⟨hal-01898513⟩