The emotional mapping of Bologna's heritage: an educational action in teacher training

Abstract

This proposal is based on the need to make future teachers more aware of the teaching of heritage from a relational approach based on the links and emotions woven with their territory, shaped by the richness of its places and traditions that bring people together and generate a common Bolognese identity. Heritage is particularly vulnerable to socio-cultural changes, to tourist overcrowding or to uncivic actions if we do not work on the value given to it by the people and their collective memory. Consequently, a specific transmission and training action is necessary to promote its valuation, care and, therefore, its survival and safeguarding. This proposal has been implemented in the Laurea Magistrale a Ciclo Unico in Scienze della formazione primaria of the University of Bologna and has resulted in a greater awareness among students of the important presence of heritage education in the classroom, as well as the knowledge of multiple educational possibilities for the use of the environment.