Inter-institutional environment established; developed and in schools verified new practices of teaching various subjects at the base of the school through examples of cultural heritage and the use of renovation skills. In Slovenia, the level of public awareness about the relevance of cultural heritage is low. This is most reflected in the physical environment where immovable heritage continues to disappear right before our eyes. Systematic change of community's attitude towards cultural heritage as a value for life, and the skills for its renovation as competence for work in the 21st century is possible only through the education of new generations. In this respect, the project addresses Slovenia's needs at the right moment, as it establishes an inter-institutional environment and learning practices for a better planned education of young people at primary school level about cultural heritage and its renovation. The project addresses four challenges: weak presence of cultural heritage content in primary school curricula; shortage of craft and technical occupations, which will be among the most sought-after on the labour market in the coming decades as well; poor teachers' skills due to the dimension of cultural heritage and the untapped opportunity for inter-institutional cooperation and interdisciplinary treatment, learning in the local environment and the introduction of modern didactics. In the project, a new teaching practice is developed, tested and evaluated on a pilot basis, which enables immediate and easy integration of examples from cultural heritage and renovation skills into teaching certain selected contents of the existing lesson plans of subjects and activity days, which at the class and subject level can be treated with with the help of cultural heritage.
Summary of bilateral results
The project has benefited from the inclusion of the Norwegian project partner by:
- the exchange of good practices of the Norwegian organisation which is focusing on promotion of natural and cultural heritage in the area of Geopark Magma;
- gathering good practices on how the school system in Norway integrates and promotes cultural heritage in their school curriculum. The data was compiled in a document as a base start before the development of new practices;
- hosting the study visit to Norway, as the Slovenian project partners gained the first-hand knowledge on the teaching approaches of the cultural heritage promoters and archeologists working with schools in the local areas and wider.
Having a Norwegian project partner was a benefit because of the attitude of Norwegian school system and also of the general populace towards the cultural heritage preservation. This attitude was reflected and could be seen just by travelling through the Norwegian landscape where the respect and preservation of the cultural heritage is seen very clearly. Slovenian project partners also experienced a big level of awareness among the youth on the cultural heritage which is much more ingrained in comparison with Slovenia.
The main results of the bilateral coopration were:
- shared knowledge and good practises through common activities and study visits;
- a generated good practices compendium;
- transfer of information between Norwegian and Slovenian teachers;
- presentation of good practices on the event in Slovenia;
- common research based on neuroscience that was concluded in Norwegian and Slovenian schools through the non-invasive study based on neurological testing of children’s emotional and cognitive responses to heritage education, environment and teaching methods.
Project partners plan to continue the cooperation and will maintain the contact in hope that any future possibilities will arise in order to further their cooperation.
Project details
Project info
Project grant
Grant financing
478510.00€
Final project cost
466919.27€