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The paper explores the dynamics of the relationship between cultural and archaeological heritage on the one hand and children and young people on the other, looking into educational aspects from the point of view of the national curriculum and school-based extracurricular activities, as well as from public-oriented activities of heritage institutions. Focusing on projected benefits for society, a line is drawn between a “passive” model of education contrasting the communicator and the recipient and an “active” or “interactive” model that fosters participatory activities through which children and young people become partners in heritage projects, taking on a much more active role in the integrated management of heritage resources than is generally reserved for them. Methodological as well as practical issues pertaining to the latter model are addressed based on a case study of the Neanderthal Trail Project.
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Authors would like to thank the organizers of Increasing Heritage Awareness Through Participatory Public Archaeology, John H Jameson and Veysel Apaydin, for their invitation to contribute to this volume, as well as all the contributors and participants of the symposium for their interesting presentations and insightful and helpful discussions during the meeting. We would also like to thank all the people who recognized the importance of our project, specifically those individuals too numerous to mention but without whose help and energy our work would be impossible to do. That said, we need to thank Vid Arbanas, Bruna Arbanas, Miren Androić, Toni Štimac, Ivan Šuta, Ivanka Kamenjarin, our students and colleagues who have participated in various activities related to the project over the years and our friends and colleagues Ivor Karavanić, Jacqueline Balen, James C.M Ahern and Katarina Gerometta for their professional help. The ongoing project “Archaeological Investigations into the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of the Lim Channel, Istria (ARCHAEOLIM)” is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.
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Janković, I., Mihelić, S. (2018). Get’em While They’re Young: Advances in Participatory Heritage Education in Croatia. In: Apaydin, V. (eds) Shared Knowledge, Shared Power. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68652-3_7
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