Artistic and Experiential Approaches—Students’ Attitudes on a Course Inspired by the New Historical Center of the City of Rhodes

This paper attempts to describe the design axes and methodology of an experiental educational program focusing on Art and Culture starting from the study of the Historical center of the city of Rhodes. The goal of the study is to show that with the appropriate experiential approach of Cultural Heritage, Academic students are able to investigate, study and form a training manual designed forbprimary school children and referring to the history and environment of the new Historical center of Rhodes. The project concerns a course of academic year 2012-13 in the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean in the context of the lesson, “Artistic Education and Creations of Artistic forms”.