TRACES OF THE PAST STUDENTS ADOPT RELICS

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TRACES OF THE PAST STUDENTS ADOPT RELICS
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THE PROGRAMMES MISSION

• We believe that young people by discovering the
  past of their local community and region shape
  their own identity, build their sense of
  responsibility for their own and others future
  and begin to feel citizens.

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THE PROGRAMMES PARTNERS

• The programme was started in 2001 as an
  enterprise of CCE and the National Heritage
  Institute
• Since 2003, the programme has been implemented in
  collaboration with the National Centre of Culture
  (nowadays Adam Mickiewiczs Institute)
• Since 2004, Leopold Kronnenberg Foundation has
  been a partner

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TRACES OF THE PAST

• In their village or town and its area students
  look for
• Neglected objects cemeteries, crosses, chapels,
  monuments, parks, houses, lanes, salt mines,
  workshops etc.
• Forsaken elements of non-material culture life
  stories, legends, customs, local heroes etc.
• symbolically adopt them and take care of them
• restore them to the common memory of the local
  community

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programmes addressees

• The programme is addressed to students of
• primary schools
• middle schools
• secondary schools
• The programme can be implemented
• in classes (lessons of civics, history, language,
  religion, arts, geography,)
• as a part of cross-curricular regional
  educational path
• as extracurricular activities

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the programmes aims

• encouraging young people to undertake actions for
  the local community
• developing a sense of belonging to little
  homeland
• engaging students and local community in
  protecting monuments
• teaching local history and regions culture
• engaging students in activities promoting their
  village, town or district

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traces of the paststep by step

• looking for traces of the past in the area
• researching information desk and field research
• choosing one object on which the activities will
  focus
• reconstructing its history
• symbolical adoption with participation of
• towns residents, parents, neighbours, friends,
  other schools, all inhabitants willing to
  participate
• local authorities representatives
• local institutions and ngos
• local media

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traces of the paststep by step

• protecting the selected object
• cleaning up the place
• preparing documentation
• placing a plaque
• persuading local authorities to renovate the
  monument
• taking specific actions
• preparing a folder or an information brochure
• showing sightseeing groups around
• preparing performances
• creating a regional memorial room etc

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all-Polish presentation

• Each year, in June, a big showcase of the
  projects takes place in Warsaw.

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all-Polish presentation

• The following take part in the presentation
• Students and teachers
• Students and teachers
• Experts
• Representatives of cultural and educational
  institutions
• Media
• This year we will also organize regional
  presentations coordinated by local teacher
  leaders.

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CCE

• Prepares materials for teachers and students
• Trains teachers and young leaders
• Develops a network of regional coordinators and
  supports their work
• Organizes the All-Polish Projects Presentation
• Edits the programmes website

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Website

• The following can be found on the website
• Projects descriptions
• Photos
• Additional materials
• Organisational information
• Useful links
• Reports from trainings and presentations
• WWW.CEO.ORG.PL/SLADY

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figures

• In the year 2001, 60 schools and over 1000
  students took part in the programme
• More than 300 schools and 6,000 students are
  taking part in the current years edition

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local partners

• Traces of the Past is being implemented thanks
  to co-operation with the following
• Regional coordinators of the programme
• Representatives of local authorities
• Cultural institutions museums, libraries,
  archives, monuments conservators
• Local media

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Regional coordinators

• CCE cooperates with 20 teachers regional
  coordinators
• Their tasks are
• Promoting the programme and executed projects
  public
• Organising and running workshops
• Consulting the teachers who implement the
  programme
• Organising regional presentations of the projects

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Examples of projectsPenitential cross

• Young people from Szprotawa have taken care
  of a penitential cross. In medieval times, such
  crosses were build by murderers on crime scenes
  to compensate their guilt. This is the only cross
  in that area! Some marks of a sword which could
  be the murder weapon were found on the cross.
  Students contacted the Provincial Monuments
  Conservator. They are also trying to add the
  cross to the relics register, and thus to provide
  it legal protection.

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Jews in Krasnik

• Krasnik is a town, where relics of Jewish
  culture can be found practically everywhere.
  Students of the Secondary School decided to save
  those objects from becoming forsaken. They have
  taken care of a Jewish cemetery and a synagogue.
  Within the frames of a project Polish and
  Jewish People in Krasnik Apart and Together
  they want to gather documentation and prepare a
  map of all the places connected with Jewish
  history in their area.

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Bindage from Kolobrzeg

• Students from Kolobrzeg have been taking
  care of a 19th century bindage for four years.
  What bothered them was that this beautiful place
  had been an avenue littered with rubbish.
  Students started with cleaning it up. Afterwards,
  with the Town Presidents consent and help, they
  began a fundraise to collect money to build a
  scaffolding. The action was successful. A metal
  frame for shaping the trees was constructed.
  Today, students are fighting to accept the
  bindage as a Natural Monument.

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settlements and barrows in Tomaszow Lubelski

• Students find settlements and mounds in the
  surroundings of Tomaszow Lubelski. From each trip
  they bring information, photos and ideas for
  graphic works. In their schools corridors, there
  is a gallery of about 70 pictures and works.
  Currently, they are preparing a computer database
  with all pictures and information. They invite
  younger students to sightseeing tours during
  which they discover to them the history and
  meaning of these places.

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traces of the past
During the last two school years our center has
developed new wings of the programme
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Righteous Among Nations righteous among us

• Students are collecting the life stories of the
  people who saved Jews doomed to extermination
  during the Second World War, people awarded with
  the title Righteous Among Nations. Life stories
  of the Righteous are the key to get to know the
  history of the Holocaust, to explore the history
  of Polish - Jewish relations. The idea of the
  project "The Righteous Among the Nations -
  righteous among us" was born as a result of
  cooperation between Center for Citizenship
  Education and Polish Association of the Children
  of the Holocaust.

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Traces of history in Warsaw

• Students are discovering the cultural and
  historical heritage of the capital city within
  three areas Powazki cemetry as a witness of
  our city and country history traces of the
  Warsaw Uprising in 1944 - insurgents, places
  Palace of Culture and Science (Stalins gift to
  Warsaw) and the history of the postcomunist
  Poland.

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students project become often local media events

• As the Tradition Directs news from Gazeta
  Lubuska

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Contact us
CCE

• ul. Noakowskiego 10,
• 00-666 Warszawa
• tel. [phone]
• e-mail ceo_at_ceo.org.pl www.ceo.org.pl