"Belt and Road" Initiative Countries' Senior Education Administrators Exchange Seminar Enters Jinsha

Release Time: 2024-10-14

On October 13, sponsored by UNESCO Teacher Education Center and Chengdu Institute of Education Sciences, and hosted by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, "Belt and Road" Initiative Countries' Senior Education Administrators Exchange Seminar was held in Jinsha Site Museum. With the theme of "STEAM meets Chinese Traditional History and Culture", 27 educational administrators and scholars from 14 countries, including the United States, Australia and Malaysia, held a series of activities at Jinsha Site Museum, including shadow play, blue dyeing and sachet making, intangible cultural heritage activities experience, academic exchanges, keynote presentations and visits.

STEAM, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics, is a program designed to break the boundaries of subject areas, advocating the innovative education model of the coherence, integrity, experience and practice of the learning process. During the event, a number of principals, teaching directors and other administrators from Chengdu Baotongshu Primary School, Santa Fe School in Shuangliu District and Zhijia Middle School in Qingbaijiang District exchanged with educational administrators from Brazil and Tanzania on the application of STEAM courses in promoting intangible cultural heritage.

Ms. He Lili, Director of the Public Service and Social Education Department of Jinsha Site Museum, delivered a speech on the topic of "I Come to Jinsha to Give a Lecture" -- the first national initiative to move the teaching classroom into the archaeological site, introducing the implementation experience of the brand education project "I Come to Jinsha to Give a Lecture", jointly created by Jinsha and Chengdu Institute of Education Science. The teacher representatives who participated in the project also shared their harvest and experience.

Zheng Manli, full-time deputy secretary of Jinsha Site Museum, said that Jinsha has long been committed to multi-level and deep field cooperation between museums and schools, which coincides with STEAM's educational philosophy of attaching importance to multidisciplinary practice. In the future, Jinsha Site Museum will further innovate educational ideas and strengthen cooperation, so that the museum is not only a useful supplement to school education, but also a "second classroom" for students to exercise their comprehensive practical ability, and an important support for education and research institutions, schools, research personnel, and teachers to carry out classroom teaching.

（实习生胡怡然译，志愿者刘文霞校）