SESSION 2 Eighth Annual Meeting of the South East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage 15-16 May 2014. Limassol, Cyprus Author: Anja Jerin, Representative of the Slovene Coordinator for the protection of the ICH (Slovene Ethnographic Museum) DISCLAIMER The ideas and opinions expressed in the above presentations are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the documents do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city of area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

1. INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE SLOVENE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM:
EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICES FROM A SLOVENE
KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL
Anja Jerin
anja.jerin@etno-muzej.si
Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Coordinator for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Limassol, Cyprus
16. 5. 2014

2. Article 4 of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage (UNESCO, 1972) …
…“the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and
transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural
heritage situated on its territory”…

3. Slovene UNESCO ASP
(Associated Schools Project) network
►war in Yugoslavia (1991, 1992 …)
►member since 1993
►Ciril Kosmač Primary School in Piran
►10 centers → 82 institutions → 4 levels
►National Coordinator of the Slovene ASP
network
►http://www.unesco-sole.si

4. UNESCO Youth Plaform of Slovenia
► http://unesco-mladi.si
► 2012: Institute Ypsilon, Slovene National
Commitee for UNESCO
►connecting, informing, educating
►4 components → UNESCO event
→ youth newsletter
→ UNESCO heralds
→ international activities

5. Heritage in Young Hands – Youth Adopting Monuments
►International Year of Cultural Heritage
(2002)
►joined by kindergartens, primary schools
and secundary schools
► Conclusions:
→ people must know a monument
→ they must be proud of it
→ its preservation must be linked to it use
►59 institutions → 67 monuments
►2013: publication

6. Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003)…
►protection, respect and raising awareness of the importance of the ICH
►registration of ICH (National Registers of ICH)
►cooperation between the communities, individuals
►UNESCO schools in Slovenia → national projects and activities → ICH

7. National projects and activities in UNESCO schools in Slovenia
►mixture of themes
►locally and regionally specific elements of ICH
►especially oral traditions and expressions,
social practices, rituals and festive events,
traditional craftmanship
►external collaborators → meetings,
workshops, presentations
►research assignments of ICH
► final event → exhibition, publication

8. Subproject Stone by Stone – kindergarten Mornarček from Piran
►project: Our Place – His Cultural and Natural Heritage → subproject: Stone to stone
►bearer of the subproject: kindergarten Mornarček, Piran (children aged 3 – 6 years)
►stone heritage of the local environment
►games, research and creativity
►booklet: Sailor’s trip through time

9. Project Reviving Dolenjska customs through the seasons of the
year – Šmihel Primary School
►project: Reviving Dolenjska customs through the seasons
►bearer of the project: Šmihel Primary School, Novo mesto
(1st to the 5th grade)
► reading and creative project:
→ 1st grade: importance of bread throught time
(games, dances, songs, fairy tales) → exhibition
→ 2nd grade: handicrafts → exhibition
→ 3rd grade: meaning of bread ovens,
home meat preparing (“koline”)
→ 4th grade: shrovetide customs, hayracks
→ 5th grade: wine growing in Slovenia, working customs
→ final event, exhibition

10. Slovene Coordinator for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage
Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Metelkova 2, 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Nena Židov, Ph.D. (nena.zidov@etno-muzej.si)
Mag. Adela Pukl (adela.pukl@etno-muzej.si)
Anja Jerin (anja.jerin@etno-muzej.si)
www: http://www.nesnovnadediscina.si
► Slovene ASP network: http://www.unesco-sole.si
► UNESCO Youth Platform: http://unesco-mladi.si
►Slovene National Committee for UNESCO:
http://www.unesco.si