PROFESSOR PEDRO WELCH (right) speaking to teachers on a tour of Jubilee Gardens, Bridgetown. (Lennox Devonish)Sat, February 18, 2012 - 12:02 AM
SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ history and social studies teachers from across the island now have a better appreciation for and knowledge of local history.
This follows a two-day workshop that included a tour of Historic Bridgetown And Its Garrison yesterday.
Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus, Dr Tara Inniss, said the tour and workshop in the Ministry of Education’s conference room on Constitution Road in Bridgetown would put the teachers in a better position to influence their students’ appreciation for and knowledge of local history.
“One of the things we wanted to do was sensitize teachers as to what world heritage was all about. We want teachers to take the history and heritage of Bridgetown to the classroom so the students would have an enriched experience and they would have better teaching strategies,” she explained.
Inniss was speaking to the SATURDAY SUN yesterday prior to the tour of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison.
She said the workshop was the first of a series planned for the next two weeks.
Inniss said the idea came about after the World Heritage Committee in 2011 formulated an action plan which included educating students nine to 15 years old about Barbados’ heritage. It was decided that teachers would be the best way to accomplish this.
The tour was conducted by UWI History Professor Pedro Welch. It took in Jubilee Gardens, the Museum of Parliament and the Garrison Savannah. (CA)
This follows a two-day workshop that included a tour of Historic Bridgetown And Its Garrison yesterday.
Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus, Dr Tara Inniss, said the tour and workshop in the Ministry of Education’s conference room on Constitution Road in Bridgetown would put the teachers in a better position to influence their students’ appreciation for and knowledge of local history.
“One of the things we wanted to do was sensitize teachers as to what world heritage was all about. We want teachers to take the history and heritage of Bridgetown to the classroom so the students would have an enriched experience and they would have better teaching strategies,” she explained.
Inniss was speaking to the SATURDAY SUN yesterday prior to the tour of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison.
She said the workshop was the first of a series planned for the next two weeks.
Inniss said the idea came about after the World Heritage Committee in 2011 formulated an action plan which included educating students nine to 15 years old about Barbados’ heritage. It was decided that teachers would be the best way to accomplish this.
The tour was conducted by UWI History Professor Pedro Welch. It took in Jubilee Gardens, the Museum of Parliament and the Garrison Savannah. (CA)
