School is an institution that educates and prepares children for future life and work. Located in a particular environment, irrespective of time and other factors, it lives and breathes in harmony with the local community that is with all organizations, clubs, societies, companies and individuals in the local environment. Different authors (e.g. Gregorčič Mrvar, Kalin, Mažgon, Muršak and Šteh, 2016) have figured out that cooperation between schools and communities took place in the past already, but they agree that now we take this mutual support too much for granted and forget its basic value.
In the theoretical part of the Master Thesis we define the notion of cooperation with the local community or the local societies. We introduce elements of cooperation with the local societies, guidelines and objectives for the planning of collaboration. We present proposals for activities from different authors and present advantages and disadvantages of working together. We investigate and introduce the legal basis of the societies. We also explore and describe the beginnings of schooling in the village of Puconci, the history of the Elementary school Puconci and its present functioning. We research and present the local environment of the Elementary school Puconci, the Municipality of Puconci, the historical background of the area of the Municipality of Puconci and cultural heritage in the Municipality of Puconci. We make a list of active local societies and clubs in the Municipality of Puconci and briefly describe them.
In the empirical part of the Master Thesis, we analyze the documentation, i.e. Annual Work Plan 2017/2018 and Curriculum for Beekeeping Club, whereby we explore and investigate the presence of cooperation with the local societies. We carried out interviews with the school managers of Primary school Puconci and with the teacher of Beekeeping Club in the Elementary school Puconci. On the basis of the results of the interviews, we investigate the teamwork of Primary school Puconci and the local societies now and in the past. We also look into the course of planning and implementation.
We prepared a lesson plan for two lessons in the 3rd class, which includes cooperation with the local societies. In cooperation with the students of 3rd class of Primary school Puconci, their teacher and representatives of local societies (The Hunting Club Brezovci, Tourist Society Vrtnica Beznovci, Pensioners Club Puconci, Table tennis Club Kema Puconci, Football Club Kema Puconci, Volunteer Fire Department Strukovci), we carried out two school lessons according to the lesson plan. We provide 3 sample year-round plans for cooperation with local societies for classes 1, 2 and 3. We introduce the findings and the conclusions that we have gained during the research.
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