Propozycje narzędzi wykorzystywanych w edukacji regionalnej

Abstract

This paper presents propositions of tools used in regional education. It discusses the essence of regional education and its main objectives: dissemination of knowledge on the region, direct experience of regional environment, enhancing regional identity, stimulation of interest in the surrounding areas. The principle of regional education is a shift in the educational process toward learning about students’ environment. It tends to enrich the curricula with new, often non-typical pieces of knowledge that familiarize students with their region’s cultural heritage. From among many new ideas introduced into regional education, the most interesting are those which employ new methods within the so-called interdisciplinary educational path. Educational tools discussed in this paper concern the so-called educational projects which represent a method that lets students acquire a variety of new skills: using various sources of information, taking responsibility, assessing, organizing work, presenting work results, etc. Many projects have to do with sightseeing tourism understood as gathering and popularizing regional knowledge through, among others, organizing excursions. Among a number of projects proposed in the paper the most interesting are: creating a chronicle, lexicon or website about students locality, excursion co-organized by students, analysis of different types of landscape, making schemes of tourist trails or arranging a regional mini-museum at school.