Sunday, 13 July 2014
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
INTRODUCTION
TEENAGERS THROUGH CULINARY TRADITION AND FAST
FOOD
We have
begun a Comenius multilateral school partnership project with seven schools
from: Poland, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. This project
began in September 2012 and will finish in July, 2014. Our first meeting was in
Romania, in November, 2012, where we decided to create a general blog called
“Mum's food or fast food? “and it will be the place where we are going to post all
the photos, comments, activities mentioned in our application form, such as the
album of the project, Grandma's recipes, the healthy eating guide and the new
ones we decide to do.
The aim of
this project is to make student aware of the importance of having healthy
eating habits. So during this project we are going to focus on the following
objectives: to define and understand the meaning of healthy eating, to
rediscover the culinary tradition of each country and to know other
cultures through their culinary tradition. The target language will be English.
The project aims to involve teenagers in a debate with the topic of
intercultural food style of young generation and the consequences in cultural identity’s
field. Students from partner institutions will be helped by coordinators
teachers to explore the issues of unhealthy food, and probe the medical, social
and cultural implications. They will oppose two concepts, (food type) fast food
and culinary tradition, understand the break that happens in the individual
mind by assimilating artificial culture that tends to become universal food
code.
The teens will reflect on their food
preferences, the culinary tradition and family backgrounds. They will explore
areas related to nutrition, food technologies, traditional and ecological
agriculture they will also confront cultures and traditions by extending the
dining experience in partner countries.
Each partner will initiate an investigation
in two directions: a foray into the fast -food that will give the possibility
to study chemical compounds used in preparing menus (will talk with
nutritionists and sociologists, will confront opinions and ideas.
On the other hand, it will be a culinary journey in the region to which it
belongs, approaching tradition and
customs. The students will be invited by a family that keeps cultural tradition
of the place. There they can assist to the preparation of a traditional menu, they
will taste the products and find
recipes, ingredients, traditional ways
to prepare food and natural conservation
of food .
These experiences will be shared within the project visits, on the web site and materialized
in the final products (European guide of healthy menus, book of traditional
recipes , brochures,
This
project will help students improve their English competence, raise awareness of
belonging to a common European culture and know their own culture and their
partners’. We will also promote
culinary and cultural traditions, having easy access to the results obtained in
the partnership.
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Spanish student self-evaluation
Conclusions
The first Comenius in our school has been evaluated very positively by parents, teachers and students.
As we can see in the graphs, parents very much appreciate the possibility what this project has offered to their children in terms of getting to know other countries, cultures, traditions and get used to respecting other realities. Thanks to this, now they can appreciate their own culture more.
The students have recognised that now they are more motivated to learn English because they see it as a communicative tool that helps them meet other people and integrate into other cultures. They have also said that they have very much enjoyed doing the activities and preparing the meetings where they have shared their knowledge and experience.
With regards to the topic of ´healthy food´ which included the importance of healthy eating and appreciation of traditional food, the students have added that they are now more conscious of them, but they have not changed their eating habits. Perhaps it is a question of time and maturity and we hope that when they grow up, they remember the things learnt in this project and they will improve their eating habits.
The teachers are very satisfied with the project. We have seen that our students are more motivated and more curious to learn about other cultures. A fact that confirms our statement is that there are a great number of students who want to take part in new projects and parents are asking for a new Erasmus project now.
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