середа, 24 травня 2017 р.

пʼятниця, 19 травня 2017 р.

Vyshyvanka Day in Ukraine

Day of Vyshyvanka is new Ukrainian nationwide celebration intended to preserve ancestral traditions of creating and wearing embroidered ethnic clothing.
This holiday is celebrated on the third Thursday of May.
Day of Vyshyvanka is original and self-sufficient, it doesn’t have any state or religious bases. One sparking idea gave start to national holiday in 2007
Since then Ukrainians have specific day to put on embroidered clothes when going to kindergarten, school, university or work place.

Short history of Day of Vyshyvanka

Nationwide action ‘Day of Ukrainian vyshyvanka’ was launched by a student of history, political science and international relationships faculty in Chernivtsi National University Lesya Voroniuk in 2007.
She noted that students often wear embroidered clothes in University and suggested choosing single day to wear vyshyvanky altogether.
The first Day of Vysyhyvanka took place in 2007 when several dozens of students come to University in Ukrainian ethnic embroidered shirts.
In course of the following years festival reached nationwide level. Ukrainian diaspora and supporters of Ukraine from all over the world joined as well.

Why celebrating Vyshyvanka Day?

The main goal of such event is preservation of Ukrainian values and their popularization among youth and country’s population in general.
The holiday doesn’t include any mandatory measures except for wearing vyshyvanka. Still there can be concerts, parades, competitions, events and fairs on the initiative of students, professors, public and cultural figures.
The holiday itself stimulates every conscious citizen of Ukraine to a very simple act – just wear vyshyvanka before going to work or study.
However, this act has a deep psychological context as it comes to expression of national and civic position, cultural education and spiritual consciousness.
The experience proves that during Vyshyvanka Day people are always in high spirits with smile on their faces. Symbols of strength, prosperity, beauty and ancient amulets are encoded in this ethnic clothes.

вівторок, 9 травня 2017 р.

Let Fly The Doves of Peace

The Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War (May 8 and May 9) is an annual international day of remembrance designated by Resolution 59/26[1] of the United Nations General Assembly on November 22, 2004. The resolution urges 'Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, non-governmental organizations and individuals' to pay tribute to the victims of World War II.

It begins on May 8, the anniversary of the date when the World War II Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

In Ukraine (since 2015) May 8 designated as a day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, but it is not a public holiday.

понеділок, 8 травня 2017 р.

Pedagogical Development Workshop "Creative and Cultural Education - Inclusive Approaches'"


взяла участь у Pedagogical Development Workshop "Creative and Cultural Education - Inclusive Approaches'" , який відбувся у Мюнхені, Німеччина з 4 по 6 травня 2017 року і був організованй у рамках міжнародної навчальної програми
Європейської комісії з метою розвитку співпраці європейських шкіл . Воркшоп — це колективний навчальний захід, учасники якого отримують нові знання та навички в процесі динамічної групової роботи. У заході взяли участь 130 вчителів з 25 країн . Програма була дуже насиченою – зустрічі з представниками різних установ системи освіти Німеччини та Бельгії, 12 воркшопів з різною тематикою, екскурсія до озера Штернберг та музею фантазії Буххайма, екскурсія історичним центром столиці Баварської землі. Це була чудова нагода для вчителів поспілкуватися з колегами , обмінятися досвідом та обговорити ідеї співпраці між школами різних країн.