Session Description

This practical workshop will teach educators to document their heritage in a fun way. Each participant in the workshop will be asked to draw something to present their culture and tradition. They will also be asked to do some embroidery and work with a small piece of hardanger fabric. The final product will be displayed at the iEARN Conference for those who are interested in starting the Heritage project differently in their institutions.  

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

At the end of the session, educators will be able to:

• Address creativity in implementing the Heritage and Tradition project
• Use alternatives to writing and taking pictures of a certain culture
• Improving Stitching skills and teaching embroidery 

Additional Session Information

Based on the iEARN project, Heritage, Tradition, and My Identity, I went beyond documenting and sharing pictures and providing written descriptions about Bedouin culture and tradition in Israel. I used crossed stitches on hardanger fabric to document the culture. This workshop will familiarize educators with alternative ways of sharing heritage and tradition. Every community is culturally rich and can be expressed by stitching and embroidery in place of taking pictures and writing descriptions.