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Heritage and Education - A Call for a New Paradigm?

Significant changes took place over the past few decades in the realm of heritage related fields. It seems that grand narratives such as national past are being substituted for a more individualistic notion of remembrance and memories. All this is happening in a setting where heritage is increasingly and in certain cases exclusively connected with tourism. Furthermore, we no longer view heritage as a sequence of events which simply map on our collective selves and thus constitute some form of abstract identity. Rather, heritage is viewed as a process where people actively construct their identity as it pertains to various social circumstances. In this presentation I would like to address these issues through the prism of composing a particular graduate program in heritage management. This enterprise almost compelled us who are working on this project to ask some basic questions such as What is heritage anyway? What sort of categorical apparatus do we have to employ in order to render heritage processes of today relevant? What sort of knowledge do we have to present in order to prepare students to competently manage the construction of identity in real-life situations?

heritage, historicity crisis, new paradigm

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