LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE PROJECT
CONVIVIUM VELIKA PLANA
Towards the growing food path Convivium Velika Plana
from Velika Plana, Serbia has an interesting project with the aim to show to
the next generations that living in the rural areas is something very positive
and special. The project consists of educating the youngest ones to appreciate
farming and farmers, and know where our food is coming from.
Life in the city Vs Life in the Countryside
Life in the
city is organized in such a manner
that the schoolchildren spend most of their day in enclosed areas. The exposure
of the children to a natural environment and the establishing and nourishing of
a close connection to nature is lessened by today’s technological development
and fun trends (personal computers, television, mobile phones, children
workshops, and shopping centers), the organization of a teaching process in
classrooms, extracurricular activities in enclosed areas and the time spent in
transportation from one activity to another.
Life in the
countryside is to a certain extent
passing on differently than life in the city boundaries. Every day jobs are
directly connected to field works, animal breeding and maintaining the
household. Children are contributing to the maintenance and development of the
family from the earliest childhood by fulfilling various duties. Peculiarity of
growing up in the country is in learning
through actual work and cooperation with other members of the family which
allows the skills, knowledge and experiences to be taught and learnt in a spontaneous and immediate manner.
This way, children spend most of the day in a relaxed and unconstrained
exploration of the world of animals and plants and in play with their peers in
an open space.
Towards the food growing path
The project "Life in the Countryside“ is an
activity that makes part of the yearly program of the elementary school Starina
Novak from Belgrade, which enables the pupils to experience a day of the countryside life. The
agricultural household that is
widely opening its doors to the children from the capital it´s called Marković, from the village Banicina in
central Serbia. Thanks to it, the pupils have the opportunity to try themselves
in various tasks (gardening, cooking
and preparing of firewood, animal breeding related jobs, working in woods and
fields) escorted by a host and a teacher. Apart from the everyday jobs, the
pupils get acquainted with the local tradition and beliefs of the countryside
population and, of course, with the manner in which their peers spend their
free-time in the country.
Staying in the countryside enables the children from
the city to spend a day in the nature intensively. Being in contact with a
different lifestyle brings encouragement for revealing various interests which
couldn’t have been aroused by the familiar conditions of the city. This is the
opportunity to contrast personal everyday experiences and to compare life in
the city to life in the countryside, seeing the similarities and differences,
advantages and disadvantages of both.
Staying in the countryside benefits the acquisition of
diverse experiences and helps creating a broader picture of the world in which
children develop, make choices and bring decisions about their own paths in
life, possibly the path of food growing in the countryside.
Written by Miloš Dilkić and Ivana Radić
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