Living Library in Elementary school Kosta Trifkovic
The first Living Library at the Elementary School Kosta Trifković from Novi Sad was held in sunny June in 2019 and was organized in strong cooperation between teachers and students. Four teachers attended Training Course about organizing Living Library in schools in Maribor, Slovenia and gained knowledge, discussed implementation with partners, leaded by Društvo Slomo from Slovenia. Students attenden set of seven workshops and many other activities with main goal to understand diversity, social inequality and Living Library as a non formal method.
Titles of the Books were: - Anorexia, weight of beauty - Person with MS - Person with Down syndrome - (Un)ordinary teenage girl - Chinese language learning girl - A person with cerebral palsy - A psychotherapist who worked with imigrants - World traveler - The nerd - Lawyer by profession - musician in the soul - Doctor from Dominican Republic - Former addict - Mother of a child with autism - Roma young women
Teachers Dragana Benić and Ivana Inić welcomed Living Books and held short meeting where books have met and made some important agreements – how to act and react, how to deal with possible problems… Teacher Tamara Jovičić held an introductory meeting with volunteers, where they recalled their roles and responsibilities during event and shared agreements on how to act in different situations.
Who helped to organize first Living Library in Elementary School Kosta Trifković? - Volunteers from Volunteer School Club - Teachers: Tamara Jovičić, Dragana Benić, Ivana Inić, Mirjana Radojičić, Nataša Micić and Snežana Rodić, - Associated partners BalkanIDEA, - Commissioner for Protection of Eqality of Serbia.
The second Living Library in Elementary school Kosta Trifkovic
The second Living Library in our school was organized on March 7, 2020. In addition to combating prejudice and discrimination, this time we wanted to examine how this informal learning method can be applied in the professional orientation of our students. We invited living books dealing with various interesting occupations, such as forensic, criminal inspector, veterinarian, sports journalist and others.
Titles of books:
Dramaturgy of life
Psychologist of indomitable spirit
Ivana's Chinese adventure
School management philosophy
A person with Down syndrome
Deminer and forensic
Love for animals from an early age
Forensic inspector
Optician
What women want
A girl learning Chinese
Sports journalist
Capoeira trainer
Milica - opera singer, psychologist and writer
Fight against growing up
Former addict
Travel - adventures through which we learn
Living encyclopedia
Ivana - mother of a boy with autism
Our second Living Library has caused even greater interest than the first and we are happy to have been able to provide our students with this unusual way of learning.
Organizers: - Volunteers from Volunteer School Club - Teachers: Dragana Benić, Ivana Inić, Mirjana Radojičić, Snežana Rodić, Nada Šušak, Savo Tešić - Commissioner for Protection of Eqality of Serbia.