The Memory Walks are guided walks around the city of Colombo designed to take participants on a journey through places and events which have shaped the city’s modern history.
The Access to Futures of Critical Learning (AFCL) programme at CHDM at its core has the intention of providing learning and training opportunities, and training material for students, teachers and the general public to engage in critical approaches to history. Centered in an interdisciplinary approach from history pedagogy, public history, museums and site-based learning, the philosophy that grounds the work intends to give an eclectic foundation.
CHDM acknowledges that history education happens at all levels of life, from the home environment, to national curricular, media and alternative sources. Hence our related activities also employ a variety of approaches intersecting with other work areas of CHDM such as museums and archives.
CHDM fosters a Community of Practice of history teachers and educators in Sri lanka that feed into all aspects of our work in developing material, providing feedback and engaging with each other across boundaries to share teaching practice and resources.
What do we offer
Guiding principles
Advocacy – We address missing histories and misrepresentations in school history discourse and advocate for inclusion
Empathy – we listen with empathy to the challenges in the education systems, and in teaching history in the public education system as well as the
Rigour – through academic rigour we support research and dialogue that productively lead to informed practices and approaches to teaching history and research of the field of communicating history.
Justice -We recognize injustices in and strive to mobilize the community of practice to address these in forums, present them to ministries etc.
Caring – we create spaces of caring that foster a space for teachers, education specialists, subject specialists, to talk with each other to create better learning environments
Programme Manager: Johann Peiris
Contact education@chdmlka.org for more information.
