Diploma in Heritage Education

Heritage education has become a key field for strengthening the relationship between culture, identity, and sustainable development. In a global context marked by technological transformation and cultural homogenization, heritage becomes an essential educational resource for understanding who we are and projecting the future with historical and social awareness.

In Latin America, where there is a wealth of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the challenge remains of effectively integrating it into educational processes and daily life. Although public policies promote its appreciation and preservation, specialized training continues to be limited and fragmented.

The Diploma in Heritage Education at the University of Piura addresses this need with a comprehensive training program that integrates education, cultural management, and heritage interpretation. It aims to train professionals capable of designing educational projects, resources, and strategies with a real impact on their communities and institutions.

It is aimed at teachers, cultural managers, museum professionals, tourism professionals, communicators, public officials and community leaders interested in heritage training.

During the program, each participant will develop a final project applicable in educational institutions, museums or cultural spaces, contributing to awareness, social appropriation and enhancement of cultural heritage.

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• Understanding the theoretical, methodological, and social foundations of heritage education.
• Apply interpretive approaches, through personal or non-personal means, in educational and community contexts.
• Design projects, resources and pedagogical strategies that link heritage, education and citizenship.
• Evaluate educational experiences and programs from a critical and sustainable perspective.
• Manage heritage initiatives with a participatory, interdisciplinary and territorial approach.

Our methodology is experiential and reflective, combining theory, practice, and case studies. Students will explore heritage education through synchronous sessions with national and international specialists, case studies, and real-world experiences in museums and cultural spaces. They will then apply this knowledge to the design of a final heritage education project.

The diploma course is delivered in a synchronous virtual format, through interactive online sessions.

• Teachers from educational institutions interested in incorporating cultural heritage as a pedagogical and educational resource.
• Tourism professionals seeking to strengthen the educational, interpretive, and participatory dimension of their work.
• Cultural managers, mediators, museologists and communicators linked to cultural institutions, museums, municipalities, NGOs or local development projects.
• Public officials and community leaders committed to valuing cultural heritage and citizenship.