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Elizabeth Kosmetatou
Dec 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/18/98
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>From: js...@cc.tnca.edu.tw
>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 98 8:29:02 GMT
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>To: <ekos...@onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be>, <greg...@osu.edu>,
> <aege...@acpub.duke.edu>
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>Subject: Re: AEGEANET outreach in Greek Primary Schools
>Status:
>
>The Melina Programma established by the Ministry of Education, Athens in 1995
>(in which I took part by chance), has by now produced some 60 book-sets for
>teacher and students, grades 1 - 4, on various aspects of Greek cultural
>anthrooplogys.
>
>Each "set" has not only the two books, but slides, audio tape cassettes,
>and games. For example for the Mycenaean period there is a reduced version
>of maritime Monopoly for conquering various islands. Nearer to our time is
>a granny telling of her wedding day, what they ate, what shw wore, how they
>danced etc - and THIS comes with the recipies for the dishes and the cake,
>as well as the dance music.
>
>ONe of the archaeological sites (I forget which) along a Cretan
>(southeast?) coast shows a pdwelling site in its various building and
>rebuilding stages and how it stands in ruyins today. By the same
>mountains. So the young reader can see the life of the SITE over the
>millennia.
>
>This way, by actively DOING things the ancients did brings the young mind
>iinto experiential situation where things make SENSE and are "learned."
>
>The Melina Programme was started as a test programme to inject cultural
>content into compulsory education in Greece. It has succeeded like
>wildfire, transforming the children into responsive, curious and
>self-possessed enquirers, while at least one of the teachers I interviewed
>three years later, has founding teaching to have become his life vocation.
>He gorws by the day, spurred by childrebn's question and eagerness to learn
>more, to try things.
>
>Into its 3rd year by Spring 1998, the programme had extended from its
>original 50 test schools to 80 across Greece and will no doubt grow.
>Unfortunagely the teachers must become alive, take initiative, and at first
>invest much time in weekend workshops to regain their child-like curiosity
>and sensory agility. Here in Taiwan public education is a century behind
>so I am work with a private kindergarten to try to promote some of these
>ideas through there, starting a minor publishing business during summers,
>as I once mentioned, bringing to life some of the archaeological sites
>along the Silk Road, that great cosmoolitan highway before passports, for
>example.
>
>In September 1999 they hope to stage a 3-day conference on preschool
>education and will stage an exhibition on the various types of teaching
>there are, inviting noted speakers from around the world, and we shall
>invite the Greeks reponsible for the Melina Programme to describe their
>trials and successes in returning cultural content to the now highly skill-
>and performance-oriented regimen.
>
>I have brought along a set of the books to inspire Chinese writers in
>Taiwan to produce parallel works on Taiwan cultural history, perhaps as
>their English reader, so as eventually to be able to exchange these little
>books with Greek schools (I have suggested that these excellent little
>books,written largely by Museum staff) be translated into English and serve
>as their English texts as well. And eventually if enough cultures produce
>children's books (for English class) on their respective cultural
>histories, a grand exchange around our global village can take place.
>And...
>
>so forth
>Joan Stanley-Baker
>
> ****Gaiapanda****
> Wisdom from the Past
> Tel +301 5133076, j...@mail.hol.gr
>
>Joan Stanley-Baker, MLitt DPhil
>Professor, Institute of Art History and Art Criticism
>Tainan National College of the Arts,
>Kuantien - Tainan County 720, Taiwan
>Tel +8866 6901719, Fax +8866 6901838, or 6903106
>js...@mail.tnca.edu.tw
>
>
>
>At 7:40 PM 17/12/98, Timothy E. Gregory wrote:
>>The recent contributions by Carolyn Draper Rivers, Jon van Leuven, and
>>several others have pointed out many of the wonderful opportunities
>>(television, organizations such as ASOR and AIA) as well as the problems
>>(absolutely no reward for outreach on the part of academic archaeologists)
>>involved in outreach.
>>
>>It is clear that most academic archaeologists will not have the time nor the
>>reward for doing much in the way of outreach (certainly including
>>television, which is an enormous undertaking!). And most K-12 teachers will
>>likewise not seek out materials in archaeology. But what I would like to
>>see is greater dialogue and means of collaboration between those in the two
>>groups who are interested in furthering archaeological awareness in K-12
>>students (and the general public). Institutions like ASOR and the AIA do a
>>wonderful job of making information available, but I'm not sure these are
>>always what teachers want (do we know?? I know that I do not). Furthermore,
>>I can speak from personal experience that many archaeologists would welcome
>>collaboration with teachers, but it is hard to identify those who are
>>interested and how to make contact. Most archaeological projects have web
>>sites and we often say that we welcome comments and questions, but I'd like
>>personally to work more closely with interested teachers to make our own
>>material available to students in ways that the teachers will find useful
>>and appropriate in their own classroom setting (which certainly has many
>>demands on it). Perhaps institutions such as ASCSA, AIA, ASOR, etc., or even
>>some of the major web sites, could set up lists where archaeologists and
>>teachers could set forth their interests and invite collaboration ...??
>>
>>tim
>>
>>
>> -v- -v- -v- -v-
>>Timothy E. Gregory
>>Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
>>Department of History Ancient Korinth
>>230 W. 17th Avenue GR 200 07
>>Columbus, Ohio 43210 Greece
>>(614) 292-1949 (office) +30-741-31209
>>(614) 292-2674 (department) 741-37219 (Isthmia)
>>(614) 292-2282 (fax) 741-31994 (fax)
>>preferred e-mail: greg...@osu.edu
>>http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/history/isthmia/teg
>>
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>
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>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 98 8:29:02 GMT
>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>To: <ekos...@onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be>, <greg...@osu.edu>,
> <aege...@acpub.duke.edu>
>Reply-To: <js...@cc.tnca.edu.tw>
>Subject: Re: AEGEANET outreach in Greek Primary Schools
>Status:
>
>The Melina Programma established by the Ministry of Education, Athens in 1995
>(in which I took part by chance), has by now produced some 60 book-sets for
>teacher and students, grades 1 - 4, on various aspects of Greek cultural
>anthrooplogys.
>
>Each "set" has not only the two books, but slides, audio tape cassettes,
>and games. For example for the Mycenaean period there is a reduced version
>of maritime Monopoly for conquering various islands. Nearer to our time is
>a granny telling of her wedding day, what they ate, what shw wore, how they
>danced etc - and THIS comes with the recipies for the dishes and the cake,
>as well as the dance music.
>
>ONe of the archaeological sites (I forget which) along a Cretan
>(southeast?) coast shows a pdwelling site in its various building and
>rebuilding stages and how it stands in ruyins today. By the same
>mountains. So the young reader can see the life of the SITE over the
>millennia.
>
>This way, by actively DOING things the ancients did brings the young mind
>iinto experiential situation where things make SENSE and are "learned."
>
>The Melina Programme was started as a test programme to inject cultural
>content into compulsory education in Greece. It has succeeded like
>wildfire, transforming the children into responsive, curious and
>self-possessed enquirers, while at least one of the teachers I interviewed
>three years later, has founding teaching to have become his life vocation.
>He gorws by the day, spurred by childrebn's question and eagerness to learn
>more, to try things.
>
>Into its 3rd year by Spring 1998, the programme had extended from its
>original 50 test schools to 80 across Greece and will no doubt grow.
>Unfortunagely the teachers must become alive, take initiative, and at first
>invest much time in weekend workshops to regain their child-like curiosity
>and sensory agility. Here in Taiwan public education is a century behind
>so I am work with a private kindergarten to try to promote some of these
>ideas through there, starting a minor publishing business during summers,
>as I once mentioned, bringing to life some of the archaeological sites
>along the Silk Road, that great cosmoolitan highway before passports, for
>example.
>
>In September 1999 they hope to stage a 3-day conference on preschool
>education and will stage an exhibition on the various types of teaching
>there are, inviting noted speakers from around the world, and we shall
>invite the Greeks reponsible for the Melina Programme to describe their
>trials and successes in returning cultural content to the now highly skill-
>and performance-oriented regimen.
>
>I have brought along a set of the books to inspire Chinese writers in
>Taiwan to produce parallel works on Taiwan cultural history, perhaps as
>their English reader, so as eventually to be able to exchange these little
>books with Greek schools (I have suggested that these excellent little
>books,written largely by Museum staff) be translated into English and serve
>as their English texts as well. And eventually if enough cultures produce
>children's books (for English class) on their respective cultural
>histories, a grand exchange around our global village can take place.
>And...
>
>so forth
>Joan Stanley-Baker
>
> ****Gaiapanda****
> Wisdom from the Past
> Tel +301 5133076, j...@mail.hol.gr
>
>Joan Stanley-Baker, MLitt DPhil
>Professor, Institute of Art History and Art Criticism
>Tainan National College of the Arts,
>Kuantien - Tainan County 720, Taiwan
>Tel +8866 6901719, Fax +8866 6901838, or 6903106
>js...@mail.tnca.edu.tw
>
>
>
>At 7:40 PM 17/12/98, Timothy E. Gregory wrote:
>>The recent contributions by Carolyn Draper Rivers, Jon van Leuven, and
>>several others have pointed out many of the wonderful opportunities
>>(television, organizations such as ASOR and AIA) as well as the problems
>>(absolutely no reward for outreach on the part of academic archaeologists)
>>involved in outreach.
>>
>>It is clear that most academic archaeologists will not have the time nor the
>>reward for doing much in the way of outreach (certainly including
>>television, which is an enormous undertaking!). And most K-12 teachers will
>>likewise not seek out materials in archaeology. But what I would like to
>>see is greater dialogue and means of collaboration between those in the two
>>groups who are interested in furthering archaeological awareness in K-12
>>students (and the general public). Institutions like ASOR and the AIA do a
>>wonderful job of making information available, but I'm not sure these are
>>always what teachers want (do we know?? I know that I do not). Furthermore,
>>I can speak from personal experience that many archaeologists would welcome
>>collaboration with teachers, but it is hard to identify those who are
>>interested and how to make contact. Most archaeological projects have web
>>sites and we often say that we welcome comments and questions, but I'd like
>>personally to work more closely with interested teachers to make our own
>>material available to students in ways that the teachers will find useful
>>and appropriate in their own classroom setting (which certainly has many
>>demands on it). Perhaps institutions such as ASCSA, AIA, ASOR, etc., or even
>>some of the major web sites, could set up lists where archaeologists and
>>teachers could set forth their interests and invite collaboration ...??
>>
>>tim
>>
>>
>> -v- -v- -v- -v-
>>Timothy E. Gregory
>>Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia
>>Department of History Ancient Korinth
>>230 W. 17th Avenue GR 200 07
>>Columbus, Ohio 43210 Greece
>>(614) 292-1949 (office) +30-741-31209
>>(614) 292-2674 (department) 741-37219 (Isthmia)
>>(614) 292-2282 (fax) 741-31994 (fax)
>>preferred e-mail: greg...@osu.edu
>>http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/history/isthmia/teg
>>
>>-
>>============================================================================
>>To unsubscribe, please mail 'unsubscribe aegeanet' to
>>'majo...@acpub.duke.edu' (without the quotation marks).
>>For help, contact the list-owner John Younger (jyou...@acpub.duke.edu).
>
>
>-
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>To unsubscribe, please mail 'unsubscribe aegeanet' to
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