Didactic Guidelines

GREEK TEAM

We have chosen to present some books and leaflets that have been produced by students and teachers in cooperation in the frame of environmental and cultural educational programs in Secondary Schools in the region of Trikala.

One can not find specific didactic guides on cultural heritage among the official didactic books at schools. Only some general guidelines can be used as an advisory material for organizing cultural events at schools. However, the greek educational system has incorporated in its curriculum cultural and environmental projects, which are being realized during the school year outside the curriculum and presented at the end of the school year in public. The result is some books or brochures or even multimedia presentations of monuments of culture or nature, important events of the local history and other aspects of the cultural past and present of the local community (music, literature, industrial production, customs, folk songs etc.).

The importance of those projects is the fact that students and teachers have learned and thought about their heritage through personal research in libraries and on the internet, by wandering around and observing their natural and human environment.

European Heritage for an Active European Citizenship through Intercultural Dialogue-CARD: Didactic Guide on Heritage-

DIDACTIC GUIDE ON HERITAGE

TITLE: MONUMENTS OF WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE - METEORA. Stimulating young people as regards the monuments of World Cultural Heritage

PUBLISHED: Kalambaka 20082

CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Ioannis Koutsombois & Nicolaos Ziogas

PRODUCED BY: Secondary students of the 1st Junior High School of Kalambaka

DESCRIPTION:

1) WHAT? It is a book produced in the frames of an environmental educational

program included in a pilot program of UNESCO, which has developed an

international network of 7000 schools from 171 countries. Through the pages

of this book, teachers and students are trying to sensitize readers of the local

community so that they familiarize themselves with their history and

contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage, as a moral obligation.

2) HOW? The book is the result of a bibliographical research of essays on

history and archaeology and also geology of the Meteora rocks and their

monasteries. The text is given in the form of questions that students have

searched for their answers in books and internet links. They have been

translated in English too, and are accompanied by plenty of beautiful pictures

taken by the involved team of students and teachers.

CONTENTS: text in form of answered questions, photographs, useful information

about visiting Meteora and extent bibliography.



TITLE: MONUMENTS OF KALAMBAKA. From ancient Aiginion and Byzantine Stagoi to modern Kalambaka.


CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Theodoros Nimas, Nicolaos Ziogas, Evaggelia Kyritsopoulou, G. Delli, V. Gandi

PRODUCED BY: 26 2nd & 3rd grade students of the 1st Junior High School of Kalambaka

DESCRIPTION:


program. Through the pages of this book, teachers and students aim to

produce a scientific historical guide for the monuments of the town, where

they live and work. The book was published and distributed to the local

community, in order to obtain an official and public character and make local

history an issue of common interest.

2) HOW? The book is the result of a bibliographical research of essays on

history and archaeology of the monuments of Kalambaka. The text is given in

well organised chapters about Geography, History and Monuments of the

town (Ancient, Byzantine, Recent and Modern times). Students have walked

around, came close to the nature and monuments of their hometown, took

pictures and undertook research on their history using school, municipal and

other local libraries.

CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs and extent bibliography.



TITLE: SILK IN PRE-WAR KALAMBAKA.


CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Maria Mesimeri, Photis Theodoroulas

PRODUCED BY: 13 secondary students of the 2nd Junior High School of Kalambaka

DESCRIPTION:


program. Through the pages of this book, teachers and students aim to give

detailed information about the production of silk in their hometown during the

20th century and before the World War II. Apart from the local activity, the

book offers information about silk production in general. So, the book was

published and distributed to the local community, in order to make the public

aware of the procedure of silk production, an occupation abandoned at

present by locals.

2) HOW? The book is the result of both bibliographical and oral investigation.

The text is given in well organised chapters about the history of silk in Greece

through ages, the silk production in Kalambaka in particular and, finally, the

Exact stages of silk production. The most important aspect of the students

work is that they contacted people who were themselves occupied with silk

production in Kalambaka (born in early 20th cent.) and collected useful and

direct information about the procedure.

CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs and bibliography.



TITLE: OUR TOWN YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW.

PUBLISHED: Trikala 2005

CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Eufrosini Ferfeli, Elisabeth Chassioti, Aliki Liakopoulou, Demetrios Goumas

PRODUCED BY: 24 2nd grade students of the 7th Junior High School of Trikala.

DESCRIPTION:

1) WHAT? It is a book produced in the frames of an environmental educational program

with the support of the Aegean University. Through the pages of this book, teachers

and students aim to give detailed and well organised information about the history

and the monuments of the town of Trikala, in which they live and work. The book

gives a historical diagram of the town of Trikala through ages (Myth, Ancient,

Byzantine, Recent and Modern times), refers to the river of the town, the centre of

the town and how it has changed through the centuries, the old town and the fortress

above it, the archaeological site of Asclepeiion, the mosque of Osman Sah, the

industrial, sports and cultural life of the recent years of Trikala history.

2) HOW? The book is the result of bibliographical and internet research as well

as actual visits in historical sites and parts of the town. The text is given in

well organised chapters and is accompanied by nice pictures taken by the

working team itself as well as old historical pictures. The students had the

chance to wander themselves in their town through history and finally wonder

about the future of their town and become sensitive of their responsibility

about it.


CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs

and bibliography, a poster.


TITLE: MUSIC COMPOSERS AND POETS FROM TRIKALA.


CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Apostolos Kostoulas, Eufrosini Ferfeli, Elisabeth Chassioti, Aliki Liakopoulou

PRODUCED BY: 32 secondary students of the 7th Junior High School of Trikala.

DESCRIPTION:

1) WHAT? It is a leaflet produced in the frames of a cultural educational project.

The book is the result of a research about famous composers from Trikala,

Basileios Tsitsanis, Apostolos Kaldaras, Kostas Virvos and Giorgos

Samoladas. The book contains the biographies and a work review of those

musicians, who are well known in the greek music of the 20th cent. There are

also some quotes from some of their songs or interviews as well as

comments of others about them.

2) HOW? The book is the result of a successful presentation of songs by the

school orchestra and choir as well as a dancing show by the dance team. The

students have been working during the school year on the work of those

composers and presented their program in the National School Art Contest in

Volos as well as before the Trikala audience, offering a beautiful summer

evening to parents and other locals.


CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs, bibliography, newspaper reviews of the

school activities.


TITLE: YOUNG PEOPLE’S TRAVEL IN THE TRADITION. A TRADITIONAL WEDDING.


CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Zoi Peristeri, Giorgos Valoumas, Aris Mantzios, Christos Konstantos.

PRODUCED BY: 26 1st and 2nd grade students of the 2nd Lyceum of Trikala.

DESCRIPTION:


The book is the result of a research about the traditional customs of wedding

in the villages of Trikala during previous centuries. The wedding customs are

presented in detail along with some of the songs sung during the weddings in

traditional communities.

2) HOW? The book is the result of a research and investigation of members of

the theatrical team of the school, who searched for books and old photos

depicting the wedding procedure in the past.

CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs, bibliography.



TITLE: NOVELISTS FROM TRIKALA. Maroula Kliafa, Toula Tigga, Elias Kefalas.


CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Sofia Gerasopoulou, Ourania Papazeukou.

PRODUCED BY: 9 3rd grade students of the 8th High School of Trikala.

DESCRIPTION:


It is the result of a research about the life and work of three popular novelists,

who were born and live in Trikala. Students have created a team of book-

readers and they presented a full biography and work review of their favourite

writers. The book is structured in chapters for each one of the writers.

2) HOW? Students contacted Maroula Kliafa, Toula Tigga and Elias Kefalas in

person but also through their novels. They got to know the literature

production of the recent years and also managed to appreciate the work of

some members of their local community.

CONTENTS: detailed text, photographs, bibliography, book reviews.



TITLE: BRIDGES OF ACHELOOS RIVER.

PUBLISHED: Mesochora 2004

CONSULTANT TEACHERS: Ioannis Brizas, Elpiniki Trelli, Aggeliki Vrachlioti.

PRODUCED BY: 4 students of the High School of Mesochora village.

DESCRIPTION:

1) WHAT? It is a leaflet produced in the frames of an environmental educational

project by a distant and small high school on the mountainous region of

Pindus. It is the result of an attempt to approach in person and understand

the natural and cultural environment of the region, where those students live.

The aim was to learn by using their senses, walking along the river and in the

forest and observing the wise co-existence of nature and human through the

ages on that mountainous region of Pindus. The leaflet is a presentation of

the stone arch-bridges constructed with absolute harmony during the 18 th and

20th centuries across the river Acheloos, one of the largest greek rivers,

whose springs are found on the Pindus mountains. The students describe the

bridges but also the procedure of their construction in the past centuries.

2) HOW? The 4 students wandered along the river, observed and realized the

structure and the use of those impressive monuments of human labour.

CONTENTS: detailed text, songs and legends about bridges, photographs.


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