Primary Curriculum and Cultural heritage

Abstract

This article aims to identify the ways that Cultural Heritage is dealt with within the Primary Curriculum (6-12 years) for Nature and Social Science, as specified by the 2007 and 2010 decrees from the Basque Government. Taking as a starting point the socio-cultural background to this stage of education, we go on to examine the competences and contents covered within it, thus identifying the key points relating both to culture and heritage to be found in the Basque Curriculum. Furthermore, from a more sociological perspective, the ways that cultural heritage is dealt with within the curriculum by the decrees are contrasted, to see how they may affect views of collective identity of the Basque People as approached in the classroom.