Frontline Worker Toolkit

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Now that we've outlined the meaning, and principles of heritage interpretation, let's look at how people can be trained to become good heritage interpreters.

Front-line workers need to know what practical and effective ways can be to train inheritance interpreters.

First, we recommend you reflect on adult learners' learning processes. The idea is that learners should be actively involved in the learning situation. They learn best in meaningful contexts, collaboratively, and interacting with others and their environment. Thus, they allow themselves the opportunity to acquire and structure knowledge and to check and cross-check their newly constructed ideas with others.

We recommend that educators construct or examine meaningful contexts in which learners will experience the relevancy and the meaning of the competencies to be acquired naturally.

It would be best if you asked learners to check the definition and examples of cultural heritage and available resources in research.

To acquire competence(s) related to the interpretation, you should allow learners to take the initiative because competence implies taking the initiative, being creative, and seeking to fulfill one's ambitions. For learners to develop competencies, you should facilitate this process with your suggestions, feedback, and, incidentally, your input.

It would help if you promoted constructive learning. Learning should be thought of as creating one's knowledge in interaction with one's environment rather than assimilating the knowledge that others are trying to convey. If we consider the interpretation of heritage as an act of constructive knowledge production, the use of the constructive learning method will contribute positively to the learning process of learners.