Preservation of Cultural Heritage via Education of Children, Utilizing Visual Communication: Persepolis as a Case Study
- 1 Department of Graphics, Faculty of Art, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- 2 Department of Art History, University of Valencia (Universitat de València), Valencia, Spain
Abstract
Focusing on the next generations as the owners of the heritage, development of the educational approach for children is an important issue which would assist the preservation of cultural affairs. Provision of the possibilities by which children can get familiar with their cultural treasures would support the cultural sustaining and maintaining approaches of the society while this chain would deliver the cultural values more effectively. Among several approaches, visual communication as the unique language which can be understood and utilized by every nation has been considered as an educational approach for children to promote their knowledge on the value of cultural heritage. Considering the fame and importance of Persepolis, it has been aimed as case study and different visual communicating procedures have been proposed for education of Persian student on this world heritage, while in some cases, the possibilities and limitations have been discussed.
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