Museums Bekennen Kleur is developing part of the curriculum on Curaçao

WILLEMSTAD - A team from Musea Bekennen Kleur and Stichting WeConnect will be on Curaçao next week for special video recordings with 12-year-old Curaçao students. These recordings will be part of the educational package of Musea Bekennen Kleur. Central themes are diversity, shared history and knowledge about the slavery past. Museums Bekennen Kleur is a partnership of museums in the Netherlands that works on greater diversity and inclusion. So that everyone can identify with what the museums have to offer.

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Students from Curaçao who participate in the recordings have recently been prepared with knowledge about the slavery past by Jeanne Henriquez, historian and expert of the Caribbean slavery past. Henriquez previously developed a curriculum about slavery history for children on the island. This part of the curriculum is financially and logistically supported by the Representation of the Netherlands in Willemstad (VNW).

Curriculum

The films that will be made next week are part of the Museums Bekennen Kleur curriculum package. The aim of the curriculum is to make primary school students in the Netherlands more aware of themes such as: how do I deal with different perspectives? It is also an introduction to Curaçao and the slavery past, told by peers. The lessons are given in preparation for a children's summit that Musea Bekennen Kleur is organizing on 19 May 2021. The G8 Children's Summit is an event in which various children from group 8 of primary education enter into a discussion about the themes of inclusion, diversity and a shared history.

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