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Born in Macerata (Italy), she moved to
Holland in 1998. Back in Italy since 1999, lives in Premeno (Province of
Verbania). Ms. Quintili has been an elementary school teacher for over
twenty years; her work also includes teaching adults, senior citizens,
students with specific educational needs and foreign students.
She participated in many didactical-educational projects, among which are:
• EU
Socrates-Comenius project, didactic circles of Macerata and Verbania
(Italy);
• an expression-linguistic project on literary geners for children’s
literature (comics, fairy tales, legends, stories and novels);
• the ‘Libriamoci’ project, generating ideas for and building a book for
children, within the ‘La Scuola Adotta un Monumento’ (The School Adopts
a Monument) project for the conservation of Italian artistic and
cultural patrimony – both projects done for the Macerata school district
authority.
Ms. Quintili
writes poetry and has also written ‘Un Dono da Scoprire’ (A Gift to
Discover) a short story about inter-religious matters for young children.
She attended many professional updating courses and formation courses for
teachers offered by the several Italian and foreign educational
institutions – mainly concerning the teaching and learning of foreign
languages. Furthermore, she is dedicated to inter-cultural and diversity
education, religious and spiritual education, peace education and
non-formal education. She is also interested in art, philosophy and
Oriental religions and cultures and takes part in various initiatives for
the actualization of the “Spiritual Forum” and about integration of
traditional and alternative medicines.
Recently she
has been working in three educational-didactical projects: “A peaceful
future” in 2003, “Searching for peace” in 2004, “Peace in the Outer and
Inner Environment” this year, all inspired by Lama Gangchen’s principles
for better living, in order to create a Peace Culture, which may bring
hope to future generations, and by his teachings about non violent
medicine and inner peace, which is the most solid foundation for world
peace.
Premeno
School 3rd class
DIDACTIC
EDUCATION PROJECT
“PEACE IN
THE INNER AND OUTER ENVIRONMENT”
3° School year
EDUCATIONAL
AREAS INVOLVED:
Peace
Education through active integration with one’s own environment;
Environment Education for better Health; Education to Diversity and
World Education; Italian Language; English Language, English as
Vehicular
Language; Multilingualism elements; Religion.
PRIMARY
SCHOOLS INVOLVED:
Premeno,
Unchio, Vignone - Verbania Province
EDUCATIONAL
AIMS:
Become more
aware of the inner and outer environment, from close and from far
Discovering how each of our actions produces an effect in our inner and
outer environment, become gradually conscious that it exists a close
interdependent relation between our wellbeing and the environmental
balance
Become conscious agents for new solutions to our individual and
collective problems
Learn how to preserve and to protect the environment, becoming his
guardians watching over it to prevent wastes in the micro and macro
economies.
DIDACTIC
OBJECTIVES:
Participate
to local and international initiatives in favor of childhood (c/o Local
Minister for Education and Culture of Verbania; Psychopedagogic Centre
for Peace of Piacenza; UNICEF; UN; etc.)
Learning new subject, or somehow known, in a foreign language
(environment, social problems, etc.)
Solve conflicts with non-violent means (problem- solving)
Use different means of non-violent communication, instruction and
diversion
Learn how to accept with inner peace the different and far from us
Learn to choose to avoid negative emotions, thoughts and behaviors in
favor of more constructive and peaceful modalities to relate ourselves
to others.
Vignone
School 1st class
ABSTRACT
FROM A DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
PEACE FLAGS “ Ribbon Competition“
III World Congress Verbania 2005
PEACE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUR HEALTH
“THE VOICE OF THE TREES”
Characters
1st flag:
apple tree, chestnut, walnut
2nd flag: pine, fir, larch
3rd flag: olive tree, poplar, coconut
4th flag: rubber tree, cypress, banana tree
5th flag: wine tree, pear tree, pagoda tree
6th flag: bamboo, sequoia, butter tree, bread tree, olive tree.
1st flag:
APPLE
TREE: "Hello, my fruits are diffused in all Europe, Asia and America and
with them exquisite jams they are prepared”
CHESTNUT: “My
fruits are ‘The poor mountain people bread’”
WALNUT: “My
nuts are delicious with bread”
2nd flag:
PINE: “We
evergreens are useful too!”
FIR: “My
trunk gives the wood for furniture exported worldwide”
LARCH: “My
name is Larch: in autumn our needles fall and the roots prevent landslides and protect the
villages”
3rd flag:
OLIVE:
“Peace, peace, brothers! Recognize that you all are useful and make
peace!”
POPLAR:
“Myself are feeling useful too, even if I don’t give fruits: paper is my
fruit. But, who are you stranger?”
COCONUT: “I
represent life for tropical countries travelers. I produce milk, oil
and textile fibers”
4th flag:
RUBBER TREE:
“I will grow 30 meters high and from me you can get a liquid that can
turns into rubber or India rubber”
CYPRESS: “Not
anyone loves me, but my role to keep watching over the dead people is
noble”
BANANA TREE:
“Everybody knows my fruits but few know the usefulness of my leaves
from which people obtain mats, beds, fences…”
5th flag:
WINE TREE: “I
grow in Centre America and the indigenous people get from my bark a
‘wine’ slightly alcoholic and sparkling”
PEAR
TREE: "You are wonderful, also my fruits with cheese are delicious! But,
who’s the other unknown one beside us?”
PAGODA TREE:
“I grow in India where it’s believed that Visnu was born under the
branches of one of my ancestors. My branches descending become roots and
trunks: I give refuge to animals and humans. And who are you?”
6th flag:
BAMBOO: "I’m
not a complete tree, but I’m good for every use and I’m a symbol of
flexibility and tenaciousness. Who are you giant? I’ve never see you
before here around!”
SEQUOIA: “I
come from California and I live for centuries, a branch of mine is more
then 20 meters high with a diameter of 2, 5 m., but to see my flowers I
will wait for about two centuries. My wood is so resistant that lasts
eternally”.
BUTTER TREE:
“Beside our specific usefulness, brothers, the most important mission
for us it is to remind to humans how to come back to live in harmony
with the environment: without a correct relation with what surround
mankind, it will not anymore be able to survive for long on the planet!”
BREAD TREE:
“Our second commitment should be to remember to human beings that, as
well as we trace an invisible bridge between earth and sky, and we are
able to communicate among us, so they also can come back to remember
that they are a small part of the whole and that from their own side
they can communicate too, without words, with their similar”.
OLIVE
TREE: "If they should want to connect their minds and establish common
aims, much better than us they could communicate with all what surrounds
them. If they could have the humility to listen to their hearts, they
could find the strength of love and compassion, harmony, comfort and
peace that they always hopeless research elsewhere. If they could
remember that all what they think, say and do affect the whole, they
should immediately stop to destroy and separate and they will start to
construct and unite together, as we naturally do”.
Premeno School 1st and 2nd class
“PRAYER FOR
PEACE”
American Native Indian
“Oh Great Spirit who dwells in the sky,
Lead us to the path of peace and understanding
Let us live together as brothers and sisters”
Special
thanks, recognition and apreciation for cooperation:
Di Salvo Stefania, Di Ventura Elviana, Marchionini Roberta, Pelfini
Maria Rita, Guglielmi Donatella
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