School of Renovation for New Generations

01/06/2022

Type of project: development project

Project promoter: Association of Historic Towns of Slovenia

Partner institutions: Secondary School of Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Environmental Science Ljubljana; University of Primorska; Public Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for the Protection of Cultural Heritage; Ivan Grohar Primary School Municipality of Škofja Loka, Magma Geopark AS

Project leader at UP FHŠ: Assist Prof. Zrinka Mileusnić

Participating researcher: Prof. Irena Lazar, Assist. Prof. Neža Čebron Lipovec, Aleš Ogorelec

Source of funding: EEA Financial Mechanism 2014 -2021 and the corresponding Slovenian participation

Duration: 01.06.2022–30.04.2024

Webpage: https://sola-prenove-za-nove-generacije.si/en/

Description:

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. In the project together with our partners, 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 the existing lesson plans of subjects and activity days in primary school.

We have tested the new approach through a non-invasive study based on neurological testing children’s emotional and cognitive responses to heritage education. The research was carried out as part of a cultural day at the Archaeological Park in Simon’s Bay in Izola, during classes at the Ivan Grohar Primary School in Škofja Loka and in Norway. We have prepared four teacher’s guides for each educational period, with open open-ended lesson plans and “a heritage chest” with didactic tools that can be adapted to existing and upcoming curricula in compulsory and optional subjects, with a focus on cultural heritage. To introduce new practices, we also run workshops for additional teacher training.

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