Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage elements and learningstrategy:: a case study

• Autores: Charles Ruyembe
• Localización: Sharing cultures 2013: Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on Intangible Heritage / Sergio Lira (ed. lit.), Rogério Amoêda (ed. lit.), Cristina Pinheiro (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-989-98013-3-2, pág. 107
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Tanzania has a rich and diverse cultural history based in community cultural life.However, at present, young people have limited opportunity to exploit this richness of creativeexpressions and engage in creative jobs as their future career. Hence, the significant challengeremains: how to integrate Intangible Cultural Heritage elements and learning strategy as ameans of promoting creative jobs for youth. This paper presents a case study on ‘Strategies foryouth employment in Tanzania: A creative industries approach’. The case study employedmixed methods incorporating questionnaires, interviews and focus groups and was held in Dar-Es-Salaam, Mwanza, Dodoma, Lindi and Morogoro from July to October, 2012.This paper dis-cusses some of the issues and argues that there is no virtual utilization of the intangible culturalheritage knowledge and skills in ‘putting education to work’ (UNESCO, 2012) for the betterprospects of youth. Although the discussion is specific to Tanzania, the case may also apply toother developing countries