Highlighting European Values

Harald Haarmann is a German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines, and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg (Germany), Bonn (Germany), Coimbra (Portugal), and Bangor (UK). He holds a PhD from Bonn University and completed his habilitation at Trier University (Germany). Haarmann taught and conducted research at several German and Japanese universities. He is Vice-President of the Institute of Archaeomythology (headquartered in Sebastopol, California) and director of its European branch (based in Luumäki, Finland). For his work, Haarmann has received several awards and some of his books have been translated into sixteen languages.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Old European cultural heritage in focus – Visions about a significant educational value.- Chapter 2. Many good reasons for giving Old Europe the credit it de-serves.- Chapter 3. Writing – The technology that produces civilization.- Chapter 4. Greek civilization as a ‘turntable’ for the transmission of fundamental achievements into western civilization.- Chapter 5. Peaceful community life as a fundamental value – A nostalgic reminder of the significance of the Old Euro-pean heritage.- Chapter 6. Living in the rhythm of nature – The value of nature protection as an ingredient of the Old European heritage.- Chapter 7. Long-time experiences with audiovisual performance – The pre-Greek tradition of theatre.- Chapter 8. The emergence of modern art – A case of long duration of aesthetics inspired by the tradi-tion of Old European abstract art.- Chapter 9. Methodical challenges for introducing new teaching materi-als into school education.