Recent Researches in Chemistry, Biology, Environment and Culture The awareness of values through education. „Saint Nicholas” Parish, Câmpina (Prahova, Romania) – crucible of local cultural and spiritual patrimony- Romanian funds (The Administration of National Cultural Fund) for cultural education MĂDĂLINA NICOLETA FRÎNCULEASA Department of Geography Humanities Faculty, Valahia University of Târgovişte Bd. Regele Carol I, no. 130024, Târgovişte, DâmboviŃa ROMANIA [email protected] ALIN FRÎNCULEASA Department of Archaeology Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology Str. Toma. Caragiu, no. 10, Ploieşti, Prahova ROMANIA [email protected] PETRU MOGA „Saint Nicholas” Parish Câmpina Slobozia District, str. Nucilor no. 9, 105600, Câmpina, Prahova ROMANIA Abstract. Apart from the general importance of education, „The awareness of values through education. „Saint Nicholas” Parish, Câmpina (Prahova, Romania) - crucible of local cultural and spiritual patrimony” project pursued its transposition into a basic component found in symbiosis with spirituality and science, and together with them to create a necessary and smart tool for the formation of a public cultural consciousness. Addressing this theme is the consequence of finding a large discrepancy in Romanian educational environments, from primary school to university, between theoretical awareness of the importance of local and regional cultural heritage and the difficulties faced in their appropriation and proper use in practice. „The awareness of values through education. „Saint Nicholas” Parish, Câmpina (Prahova, Romania) - crucible of local cultural and spiritual patrimony” project was won in a competition by Valahia University of Târgovişte in partnership with Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology and „Saint Nicholas” Parish, Câmpina, in the second funding session, July 2011, initiated by the Administration of National Cultural Fund, at the Cultural Education section. Keywords: education, culture, patrimony, spirituality, Câmpina, Romania 1. Introduction. because this component is the main propelling force Cultural patrimony is an important part of local when we have in mind the characteristic of individual identity, a source of essential values, spiritual and fiber. Only through education we can place ourselves aesthetic experiences that must be constantly in the present time, and the present cannot be really supported through educational approaches. The lack lived if we do not value our past. The simple state of of education and cultural information of the public affairs of present times emphasizes without any doubt often leads to ignoring local cultural values and their the consequences of neglecting cultural education, potential for regional development. In the educational facing us with a society that fails to understand the system the component of cultural consciousness is real value of its patrimony. Humankind has always precarious and this affects the quality of society tended to improve knowledge, has aimed for scientific ISBN: 978-1-61804-060-2 40 Recent Researches in Chemistry, Biology, Environment and Culture progress and has used as a starting point education, of multiple opportunities for the accomplishment of an which we can never have enough. educational project. The parish ensemble is constituted from: The old church „Saint Nicholas” whose present construction was preceded by a suppositional church made out of wood at the end of the XVIIth century and by a church founded by the abbot Damaschin – Dionisie around 1796; The new church The descent of the Holy Spirit, The Feast House, The kindergarten (Waldorf method) that used to serve as hay storehouse and stable and kept incised the year of its construction (1842) on an oak beam; The parsonage, dating from 1840, that appears on the list of historical monuments from Câmpina as the oldest house in the city, kept in its authentic shape and construction. Fig. 1. Romania map – location of Câmpina city For the remaking of the entire architectural ensemble the architect Livia CâlŃia was awarded in Câmpina city, localized at 45° 7'58.82"N, 2008 the National Award for Arts - Architecture. 25°45'5.11"E, about 30 km North-West of Ploieşti, is Integrated into this space is the archaeological placed in the sub-Carpathian area, bordered on the complex-Bronze Age necropolis, where the West side by Prahova Valley and on the East side by archaeological researches have begun in 2008, whose Doftana river. Found approximately 1km away from exceptional nature is given by the appearance of the confluence of Prahova and Doftana rivers, on the tombs dating from three distinct cultural second terrace of Prahova (Câmpina terrace), „Saint manifestations: Tei, Monteoru and Noua, a unique Nicholas” Parish ensemble allows a profound study of situation in the Subcarpathian area. The funeral rites natural and cultural (including archaeological) present are both inhumation and cremation. perspectives on the social evolution of this region. Inhumation graves have rectangular pits with rounded corners, for cremation tombs the bones were placed in small pits lined with stones. Above the interred individual a mound of stone and/or land was arranged, exceeding in size the dimensions of the pits. The grave inventory consisted of vessels, but also pieces of jewelry made of bone, bronze, amber, glassy paste, clay. Based on the rite, ritual, archaeological inventory, but also on absolute dating, the cemetery seems to have functioned in the Late Bronze Age, between 16th and 13th century B.C. Its proximity to a medieval and two other modern cemeteries indicates the fact that the collective memory has kept in its subconscious the sacredness of the place. The formative valences of the cultural and Fig.2. Map of „Saint Nicholas” Parish Câmpina. natural landscape represented by „Saint Nicholas” 1. gravles; 2. redish silt; 3. natural slope of erosion; 4. Parish Câmpina allow the approach, in a highly artificial slope; 5. parish court; accesible maner, of the understanding both of the a. medieval cemetery; b. Bronz Age cemetery; c. new significance and importance of patrimony, but also church; ancient church underline its cultural and material frailty. The cultural dimension of this space is doubled by the educational potential it brings, by „Saint Nicholas” Parish Câmpina represents a joining spiritual elements, much more present in the complex of architectural and historical elements that life of a comunity, with cultural and material elements create, through the cultural context they offer, (architectural and archaeological patrimony). This is ISBN: 978-1-61804-060-2 41 Recent Researches in Chemistry, Biology, Environment and Culture one of the reasons why the educational units proposed cultural perimeter that deserves to go beyond its local by the project are headed especially towards cultural- borders. material elements, which, although present, raise only tangentially the interest of the comunity. 2.1. Objectives The purpose of this cultural project was to increase the posibilities of access to culture – the awareness of the value of patrimony by creating instructive and cultural products accesible to a wide range of public. In order to achieve the main goal - to create specific educational, cultural and scientific products in order to assure the visibility and protection of local patrimony and to invigorate local cultural life, a set of specific objectives were settled, so as to cover all necessary sections for the logical progression of the pursued approach. These aimed for: bringing the public closer to understanding the archaeological patrimony by accustoming them to the entire methodologycal process of interdisciplinary research; transposition of cultural and spiritual influences assimilated in a social model that Fig.3. Image during archaeological research recognizes cultural value; increasing the educational value of this It is also the case that the parish has a lifestyle area; that gathers recurrently, through multiple activities – presentation and organization of scientific meetings, feasts a very large public with different information in an accessible manner, levels of culture and provides access to a target group complemented by an explicit graphic material accustomed with „school-walks”. (drawings, graphic reconstructions, photos, etc.); establishing relationships between research 2. The description of the project and education institutions involved in the Structurally conceived on two axis, the project and similar institutions, in order to project „The awareness of values through education. facilitate the impact of the research on the „Saint Nicholas” Parish, Câmpina (Prahova, scientific community; Romania) - crucible of local cultural and spiritual proposals for capitalization and promotion of patrimony” pursued, on the one hand, a series of the archaeological site and the entire worship educational activities addressed to a young public complex as environmental reservation in the (children, students) focused on the practical and local cultural frame, according to town- applicative aspect, and on the other hand aimed at planning development. drawing attention, to the scientific and local public comunity, to efforts made for the research of the 2.2. Relevance archaeological site from the parish precint. The project proved viable, necessary and relevant to The interregional partnership created is a solid the specific needs of target groups (pupils, students, one, based on numeorus previous connections