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SAINTE ANNE  - COURSE EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK

The course has focused on the importance of maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalization. Cultural heritage includes tangible, intangible and natural heritage. During the course we have explored the different aspects of culture, relating each of them to Guadeloupean culture and the cultures of each participant.

As the best way to preserve cultural heritage is to share it with others, we have also explored different ICT tools to share cultural heritage with the use of digital communication technology and the existing networks.

Finally, we have considered the importance of  internationalisation of curriculum in enhancing the quality of education.

Alongside, the interactive French language learning activities have given the opportunity to improve the French language in an authentic environment.

Digital Dynamic Cultural Dialogue course has given me very clear tools on how to enrich the school curriculum by implementing the safeguarding of cultural heritage and how to reinforce cooperation with international partners.

Most of all, Rita Stoskiene has been an inspirational teacher, sharing her knowledge and experience with professionalism and a very generous attitude.

The course has exceeded my expectations: I learnt a lot about the local and different cultures and I have met  international colleagues willing to share their professional experiences.

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The course has been very well planned and has really reached my expectations. I have learned a lot in many different subjects about facts, feelings, life wisdoms and so on. It has been very nice meeting all this different people in different places. Learning about culture is not just about listening to music, watching things – it is also about seeing people talk to each other, feel the smell when food is made, trying to understand what people mean with their body language and to seeing how they live. And all this have we done during this course.

Rita has done a fantastic job to create this course and is also very good at creating a good feeling in the group. It is not always so easy to away from your family for two weeks, but the group feels like a second family now.

Maybe a course, whatever the content, would have felt good due the nice people in the group (that includes our teacher Rita) but I am sure that the things we have done and seen really has made it all better.

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I believe that travel is the best way of learning. About the world, the nature, different countries and people but most important about yourself. Stepping out of a daily routine highlights the true essence of what we are, awakens a curious child inside us and sets perfect conditions for transformational  learning.
I believe that all teachers can be happy and share their passion with their pupils or students and their colleagues. I believe that through my work I help them to find that happiness again.

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I attended a course called Digital Dynamic Cultural Dialogue, which took place from November 4 to November 14, 2019 in Guadeloupe. The content of the course was very interesting and varied. I experienced and learned many new, interesting things and met wonderful people. Prior to the start of the course, we were provided with course study booklet that was a pillar of content throughout the course.

In many ways, I have come to understand the importance of tradition and the importance of including it in working with children through different approaches. If we respect the tradition ourselves, and share it with love, it will live forever.

Tradition, however, is very much intertwined with history and life of yore. I had a chance to get to know part of the history on Guadeloupe when we visited The Memorial ACT-e.

I was familiar with the understanding of slavery and the slave trade.

During the course of the course, we visited two schools. I'm glad I got to know how school work is here. I have found that there are many differences compared to the Slovenian school. By getting to know other schools, kindergartens and teachers we can compare, we can improve our work. Good ideas are always welcome. As my friend says: Give where it isn’t and take where it is.

I had the opportunity to play on their traditional drums. An amazing experience. On Guadeloupe, music is not just music. It is an element that connects people. They play with passion - amazing. They really respect their music. Besides the music, I was very impressed with their food. So simple and so delicious. I like their tradition of  gathering in large numbers on weekends.

I was introduced to a lot of plants growing here. We smelled and felt the plants. We also tried many fruits. The amazing nature is here.

Many times I feel that native plants, nature, culture are self-evident. Therefore, we repeatedly forget to pass on our tradition, culture or heritage to the younger generations. In the future, I will definitely remember and share it several times. Just as everything seemed to me to be "wow" here, the younger generation would also consider content that I take for granted, but the child has never been familiar with. And how will a child love what he does not know? That is why we are teachers here, parents, to teach them, to transmit tradition, heritage, culture...

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It was an amazing 10 days discovering the cultural heritage of Guadeloupe. Getting to know your nation's heritage and the heritage of other nations is an important way to appreciating your identity. The past represents your roots and it makes you who you are. Therefore you should not just think of your past but put your effort in present so you will look at it as your own past.

It was a jurney back in time, it was the present and there were thoughts about the future. Memorial ACT museum moved me a lot. Discovering sites that are connected with the history and remembrance of slavery (or any other exploitation of human being) is always shocking for me. It provided me fuller understanding of the island’s past but it made me also think how this past is influencing the present life and what are the tangible evidence of it. I think the resistance should be a human right especially in the nowadays slavery.

Visiting schools was also very interesting for me. We could observe pupils learning English and Music.

I was enchanted by nature – the rain forest, the creole garden, the sea with life in it. But above all the music – playing Gwo Ka drums in a way Guadeloupean do, was amazing and magical. I was also impressed by the singing tale in Creole language - of a boy who called for help. It made me think that we should be aware that we always find shelter and help in nature and in our heritage. However, we need to pass this knowledge on to our children and students.

Last but not least I was thinking about internationalising of te world which is extremely quick and children and students are not always prepared on it in a right way. I think it shoud be done mostly through the real experience and not on internet. We are we are social beings who need genuine human contact. At the same time, we need to take care of tending to the tradition and transferring elements of cultural heritage into the future.

During the course I was thinking about how to apply the strategies we have done, the ICT tools and the theory about heritage in my work as a teacher. All the time I was asking myself a question weather social media, the internet, globalization, tourism work for the benefit of cultural heritage.

It is interesting how in the culture of other cultures you always remember your tradition. As you look for similarities and differences, you develop an understanding, tolerance, and respect for both.

In addition, I have learned some French.

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First of all, I want to say thank you for that wonderful and amazing days on Guadeloupe.Everything was really well planned from the very beginning. For the booking of the accommodation, the flights, the transfer and the preparing materials I got so much help and advice ahead.

During the course itself, we were able to experience the meaning of a cultural heritage and the different forms in many different ways. The places were perfectly chosen so that the learning always took place over different senses and was never theoretical.
The cultural heritage itself can be divided into three distinct areas: the tangible cultural heritage, the intangible cultural heritage and the natural cultural heritage While the tangible heritage is about objects, dishes, instruments, art and the like, the intangible heritage is primarily about knowing how to make or prepare the former. Also, languages, songs and traditions, such as a family dinner are essential.The natural heritage refers on the one hand to different places but also to certain, country-typical plants and animals, which gain in importance through the exact knowledge. However, all of this is not static, but rather a constant change due to different influences.
Language can change through immigration but also through trends and media. But also, in music and art a constant change takes place through creativity and various other cultural influences. Food is modified, works of art adapted to the local conditions and cultural influences.
We enter into a symbiosis in living together in communion with other cultures, in which the cultural heritage is subject to this change and where some things can be lost in favor of something new. Similar to the plants in the forest, where some benefit from others and in the end one of the plants is damaged by this symbiosis.However, she is not completely lost because she has already sown seeds and will continue to exist. The situation is very similar to our traditions.
If we pass on our own cultural heritage and not let it be forgotten, it will continue.

Therefore, it is our role as teachers, as multipliers, to pass this heritage on to our pupils in order to preserve it. They, in turn, will talk about it in their family, and so the circle of people we can easily reach expands.
A special way to think about your own cultural heritage is the international exchange, because you actually have to think about what your own culture really is.
But also, in the normal lessons, one's own culture can be integrated in different ways. Especially in music and art classes, but also in biology as well as many other subjects, our cultural roots can be incorporated without much effort.

Especially exciting are the different influences in multicultural classes and this can be a good opportunity for comparison.
So, the message of the course for me is, that we need to experience and to know our own cultural heritage so that we can keep it for future generations. We discovered many ways to get in contact to our cultural heritage, to understand and even to show it to our pupils. And we also got an impression, how to save and share this knowledge with the help of different Ict-tools. This knowledge is very precious, because nobody knows what the future will be like in times of climate change, and the knowledge of alternative ways of nutrition and healing will become more and more important.

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ICT tools for Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage "To know and understand our own culture, we must learn to see it from the point of view of other cultures, comparing our customs and beliefs with those of other times and places.