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The UNESCO Associated Schools Network of Uruguay
participates for the first time in the 2009 International Heritage
Photographic Experience. The enthousiasm with which Esteve
Mach i Bosch convoked us was decisive to face this task. Our
most sincere gratitude to him.
The National Commission for UNESCO organized a serie of
workshops about heritage following the guidelines of the
“World Heritage in Young Hands” project. These workshops
on photography were in charge of the well known team of
photographers of the Uruguayan Photo Club. Since 2008
Uruguay launched a plan of inclusion and access to TIC called
“Plan Ceibal” (Basic Informatic Educative Connectivity for Online
Learning, Uruguay counterpart of “One Laptop per Child”
project) in all public schools. Each child and each teacher have
a computer, and the challenge is to take the most of them,
incorporating image and sound, to produce educational and
cultural materials and not just consume them. Formal education
does not include this visual culture in which our young people
is immerse. The experience to capture our heritage through the
young people’s eye, using the computers and afterwards the
cameras of the institution, opened new horizons of creatitvity
and thought. Due to the good disposition of authorities and
teachers of the participant institutions this experience goes
beyond this specific call.
We faced the difficult task of selecting the photos for this
catalog. And moreover, the task of organizing a show of all the
photos taken by the uruguayan students, to be exhibited all
around the country, besides the official exhibit of the catalog.
Because a country that recognizes itself in the eyes of the
children and young people can question its identity and can
grow accepting its diversity. |
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