Abstract

This article presents the R&D Project “The Place of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Schools of Lisbon,” developed within the scope of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (CeiED/ULHT). This project aims to identify initiatives in the area of intangible cultural heritage that encourage valuing cultural diversity and citizenship in formal education spaces in the curricular and extracurricular activities of schools in Greater Lisbon. The authors discuss the concept of heritage with a particular focus on intangible cultural heritage and sociomuseology. The connections between museology and education seeking social development, as well as the social function of heritage from the perspective of valuing diversity and promoting efforts to build a community dialogue for inclusion, are also shown as a methodology for the understanding of cultural manifestations and processes in formal and non-formal educational dynamics.