ms. Elena Simeonov, Ljubljana SI
Education for maintance of special knowledges, kills and capabilities of construstions who create, maintain, change national (people's) architecture - Experiences of Vocational Unit of Heigh School for Construction and Economy in Ljubljana.
Following initiative of Restoration Center and Ministry of Education and Sports of the Republic of Slovenia in 1994, we have started our preparations for education of craftsmen who graduated at vocational and technical construction heigh schools and who wanted to specialize in vocations: carpenter, bricklayer, stonecarver, and construction tehnician - restorer. We wrote the syllabuses and started with training of our teachers of theoretical and practical vocational education. We organized excursions in Slovenia and abroad, lectures by experts and seminars for teachers of our and other Slovenian construction heigh schools.
We introduced gained knowledges to our work with regular students in form of facultative subject for students of the finel year, projects, seminars and researches. Our aim is to help our students understand some of the problems of evalution and maintenance of built herritage and to motivate them to continue their education in this field after graduating at our school.
At this conference I would like to present a modest project about people's
(national) architecture concerning carpentry, which was done by some teachers and students at our school. The result are some posters and models where we tried to combine theoretical and practical knowledge and skills.