Education Minister Ligia Deca and Culture Minister Raluca Turcan have signed a collaboration protocol aimed at supporting activities, projects, and initiatives for the promotion of cultural education.
Some of the main objectives of the project are: valuing the national cultural heritage and forms of cultural expression among children and young people, ensuring the necessary framework for collaboration between public cultural institutions and educational units, and supporting the development of a set of civic attitudes that allow young people to use cultural education as a resource, instrument, and context for complementary learning to formal education.
Additionally, a central objective of the collaboration is the organisation of continuous training programmes for teachers, enabling them to develop skills to use cultural education and cultural institutions as contexts for learning that complement those organised within educational units.
Moreover, efforts will be made to include pedagogical practice activities organised with the involvement of public cultural institutions (museums, theatres, operas, libraries, etc.) in the pedagogical practice stages, both at the bachelor’s level and at the master’s/postdoctoral level.
„This partnership confirms our commitment to valuing culture in the educational context. The activities we will carry out will represent a bridge between knowledge and cultural heritage, intended to provide young people with the opportunity to face global challenges, advocate for social cohesion, and promote national identity and values,” Education Minister Ligia Deca said, according to a press release.
Culture Minister Raluca Turcan highlighted that the protocol aims to bring cultural institutions closer to educational institutions, contributing to increasing interest in culture in general and among the audience of tomorrow, in particular.
„On one hand, the protocol aims to make cultural institutions accessible to all types of audiences by training employees in the cultural sector in the direction of cultural education and by creating products and projects for cultural education. On the other hand, the protocol provides the foundation for training teachers in the direction of cultural education so that they can use culture and cultural institutions as tools in formal education. Last but not least, this protocol represents the basis for a future public policy on cultural education,” Turcan said.
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