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YOU MIGHT have seen several monuments in India in conditions of utter neglect. Not because they are not preserved but because indifferent people take them as a blackboard to scrawl their messages, a washroom to bathe and attend to nature's call and a dustbin to throw waste. A nationwide need to preserve their dignity and majesty always felt and now -- realised.
Recently, Intach Heritage Awarenss Programme planned a yearlong heritage education campaign and joined hands with the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India to get the campaign campaign underway.
To initiate the move, several teacher-training workshops on heritage awareness, integrating heritage education with school curricula, developing educational activities for children to make them a part of the awareness campaign was the first step that they took. `Navrattans of my city' an interactive exercise for children in which they would research and prepare their own heritage list is one way of making them feel its importance.
Last month also saw a two-day workshop for 40 schools in Delhi as a part of the campaign's first series in India. Here teachers were introduced to history of Delhi, its monuments and issues related to conservation. They prepared lesson plans in groups and activities to incorporate them in their respective school's annual programme. They were also trained on how to organise museums and site visits and design interesting programmes on natural heritage.
"A novel idea. It is good to teach our children love and respect our heritage," says a teacher from Sanskriti School.
Importantly teachers came out with several ideas of making children aware of heritage by making puppets, teaching heritage-related topics in the class through story-telling manner and play-way to make them more interesting.
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