Published by the Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda, this policy brief responds to the urgent need to preserve and promote Uganda’s rapidly vanishing cultural heritage, it also presents a case for the institutionalization of heritage education in syllabi at various levels, with a specific focus on secondary schools.
Promoting Heritage Education in Uganda – Policy Brief
This policy brief responds to the urgent need to preserve and promote Uganda’s rapidly vanishing cultural heritage. An appreciation of heritage is often learnt in both formal and informal spaces, and nurtured over time. This implies a long term endeavour which requires deliberate and consistent intervention. Due to a breakdown of family values, coupled with limited formal spaces to learn about heritage, there is a general lack of understanding and value attached to cultural heritage in Uganda. This policy brief therefore presents a case for the institutionalization of heritage education in syllabi at various levels, with a specific focus on secondary schools.