Estimated Duration: 4 hours (3 hours: cultural visit, 1 hour: meeting).
Related to:
Step: 2
Dimension: Cognitive
Qualitative Indicator: Local cultural monuments, Local history/narratives
Type of activity: Group or individual
The TCN(s) visit(s) important local cultural monuments and learn basic information about their history and value with the aid of voluntary local guides.
Voluntary local guides organise cultural visits to important local monuments based on the pictures that impressed more the TCN(s) during the previous activity (Activity 1.4) or as selected by themselves based on their significance. During the cultural visits, they provide the TCN(s) with information on the history and value of these monuments and help them to locate them with the aid of a map.
- One voluntary local guide.
- A visit plan.
- A list of important monuments close to the area where TCN(s) live(s) or that are located at key areas.
- A set of information about the selected monuments.
- A way of transportation.
- Local authorities’ representatives or people living at the visited areas (optional or for some monuments).
- One map.
- Action plan(s).
Implementation Steps
The voluntary local guide along with the TCN(s) visit monuments based on a visit plan prepared by the guide from before in order for implementation of visits to monuments that are close to one another. At each stop, the guide explains to the TCN(s) the history of the monument and its value for the locals. He/she also gives to him/her/them other useful information about it. During the presentation of each monument, he/she shows to the TCN(s) where this monument is located on the map. This will help the TCN(s) to orient himself/herself/themselves more easily.
In case that provision of information from the local authorities or the locals in general is possible, the voluntary local guide can arrange additional presentations through which representatives of the local authorities or individuals living in the area can provide the TCN(s) with wider or different kind of knowledge about the monuments. Alternatively, for some monuments only the representative of the local authorities or the local resident can present the monument to the TCN(s).
After the cultural visit, the mentor meets the TCN(s) again in order to have a discussion with him/her/them on the monuments they visited. During this meeting, the TCN(s) express(es) his/her/their thoughts and feelings on the monuments that he/she/they visited, tell(s) to the group which monument impressed him/her/them more and why, and compare(s) the visited monuments with local monuments of his/her/their own culture. Also, if the mentor decides so, he/she can ask questions to the TCN(s) to help him/her/them recall the cultural visit and every stop that they had made in order to realise what he/she/they have learnt from the visit. Additionally, he/she can summarise what was presented to the TCN(s) during the cultural visit or ask from one or more TCNs to do so.
After that, the mentor signs the action plan(s) of the TCN(s) as completed.