Living with Water, Heritage & Risks: An Educator’s Toolkit for Global Citizenship

This toolkit provides educators in schools, museums or conservation organizations with a variety of learner engagement tools to explore how communities live with Water, Heritage and Risks. The term Water Heritage is used in this resource to refer to tangible and intangible aspects of human interaction with water. The five domains of Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO 2003) are particularly useful in helping learners think of values and practices that enable communities to thrive in, on and above water.

This toolkit contains an overview of Water as Heritage and how Global Citizenship Education can help people to forge societies that are more just, peaceful and tolerant. Educators will find teaching tools that were conceptualized with adapted pedagogical principles found in the spheres of Global Citizenship Education (GCED), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), and Disaster Risk Management (DRM). While there are ten lesson ideas and five photocards related to water heritage sites in Southeast Asia in this toolkit, educators are encouraged to design their own learning experiences together with their learners.