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2009 - PARTNERSHIP COMPENDIUM - Grundtvig partnerships
COUNTRY: Germany
Project reference: 2009-1-DE2-GRU06-01778
PROJECT TITLE: Church Guide Training
PROJECT ACRONYM: CG Training
Project description
FULL TITLE: Church Guide Training – a Challenge for Adult Education. Sacred spaces and basic life topics – a
special focus on concepts of adult education for the training of professional, semi professional and voluntary church
guides.SUMMARY:The aim of the partnership is to increase the competence (knowledge, spiritual experience and
didactic ability) of persons who actually work or want to work as church guides (professional, semi professional and
voluntary CG).There is a wide spread interest in issues of self-awareness, spiritual experience as well as basic life
topics. The partnership wants to serve as a useful and critical platform for the exchange about issues of
"respiritualization" which often shows a tendency to ignore its own cultural roots. It will combine the personal
competence of the participants with the rich local resources of sacred spaces as churches, monasteries, special
locations in nature. There are two main target groups: 1. Church guides or touristic guides who guide in churches
and 2. Other persons, especially elderly people with particular competence and interest in spiritual topics and
perhaps ready for an activity as voluntary church guide. The partnership is based on the active participation of the
members following a concept of learning together. It combines the different interests and experiences of the
partners (ecclesiastical and non ecclesiastical, different religious traditions) in a useful way to enhance personal
and professional development. It will also serve as a useful tool in competence and capacity building. The partners
will exchange their interests and experiences. Special topics (e.g. transience/death, the sense of living, spirituality
and curriculum vita) can be focused as well as specific local features (cloisters, legends and myths, special
meaning of Romanesque, Gothic or Baroque styles) and living local traditions. There will be time for contemplation
at local sacred places, for meditation and discussion of the topics. Based on these examples of good practice
there will be developed suitable didactic concepts and methods (music and movement work, creative methods to
find out the meaning behind pictures with “all of the senses”, methods of meditation and contemplation, gilding) by
the participants. Several of these examples will be tested and discussed with the participants. During the
partnership personal, theoretical and didactic competence will be enlarged and tools for the training of CG will be
developed. Suitable modules and important aspects of the discussion concerning topics, local resources and
methods will be documented and published in the web.
Area(s) covered
Cultural heritage
Intergenerational learning / learning in later life / senior citizens
Pedagogy and didactics
Coordinating institution
Name - Abbreviation:
Agentur Kultur GbR Dr. Jürgen Halberstadt und Dr.
Rudolf Halberstadt
Address:
Römerstr. 26
DE-Germany, 80803, München
Telephone: 0049 89 34086900
Partners
Name - Abbreviation:
Verein Katholisches Bildungswerk der Diözese St.
Pölten
Address:
Klostergasse 16
AT-Austria, 3100, St. Pölten
Telephone: 004327423242353
Name - Abbreviation:
KEK NA/ NELE KAVALAS
Address:
Κ.ΠΟΙΗΤΗ 18
GR-Greece, 65201, KAVALA
Telephone: +302510831126
Email: nele@kav.forthnet.gr
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