30 January 2010 - Kick off meeting in Serbia: The CDRSEE met with donors, stakeholders and project partners in Serbia to plan the implementation of the JHP country plan for Serbia in 2010. The team is composed of the Association for Social History, key coordinator Dubravka Stojanovic, PR coordinator Biljana Stupar and CDRSEE staff. Milestones in 2010 will be a second edition of the successful... read more here!
20 January 2010: User's Guide to the Complementary History Teaching Workbooks now available for download. Fresh of the print, the User's Guide to the Complementary History Teaching Workbooks are now available for free download. The books provide teachers with practical guidelines developed by expert methodologist on how to best use the Joint History Project's Alternative Educational Materials. Get your copy by clicking here!
09 October 2009: Do you want to know more about the Joint History Project at a glance? New and updated overviews of the project are now available for free download! The overviews provide for a detailed account of the project's milestones, highlights and organisation. Find out more about the JHP: Detailed Overview of the JHP Summarised Overview of the JHP
The joint history project has been made possible through the kind financial assistance of the
following:
Dr Peter Mahringer Fonds,
The Royal Dutch Embassy in Athens,
Two anonymous donors,
Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture,
UK FCO,
Swiss Development Agency,
Cyprus Federation of America,
Winston Foundation for World Peace
The JHP is a long-term participative project that brings together historians, teachers, pedagogues, CSOs and students to work together towards the emergence of democratic and peaceful societies in the region, through multi-perspective history education.
The aim is to revise ethnocentric school history teaching by avoiding the production of stereotypes, by identifying attitudes that encourage conflict, by suggesting alternative teaching methods, and by promoting the idea of multiple interpretations of one event. History that instils values of academic rigour and critical analysis would serve as a solid basis for democracy, reconciliation and tolerance in Southeast Europe.
The JHP is divided into two sections, one overseen by the Academic Committee, first chaired by Professor Maria Todorova and currently chaired by Professor Fikret Adanir, and the other overseen by the History Education Committee, chaired by Professor Christina Koulouri, with Professor Halil Berktay and Dr. Dubravka Stojanovic as Vice-Chairs.
"...and you, parents, give your children an education, teach them to read and write. Do what you have to do to set up a school and find a teacher. It would be better to leave them poor and educated, rather than rich and illiterate."
Kosmas the Aitolian (1714-1779) as quoted in Workbook 1 - The Ottoman Empire.
