25-26 April 2009: Third Local Teacher Training Workshop for the Croatian Language Edition of the JHP Workbooks. Gathering over twenty history teachers primarily from Dalmatia, Dubrovnik was the host to the third and last for this cycle local teacher training workshop for the Croatian language edition. Present were local language editor and international trainer Kresimir Erdelja, history professor and international trainer Snjezana Koren and director of local partner HUNP and teacher trainer Ivan Dukic. Additionally, history teachers Nikola Damjanovic, Sonja Bancic and Kiti Korda were present in the capacity of local teacher trainers and each delivered one model lesson. To read full article, click here.
18-19 April 2009: Third Local Teacher Training Workshop for the Bosnian Language Edition of the JHP Workbooks. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina was host to the third and final for this cycle, local teacher training Workshop for the Bosnian language edition, gathering teachers from this region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Workshop was led by local language editor and teacher trainer Enes Milak as well as by professors of history and teacher trainers Munib Efendić and Dragan Gavran. Professors Efendić and Gavran were first introduced to the JHP at the Training of Trainers Conference held in April 2008 in Sarajevo. To read full article, click here.
7-8 March 2009: Second Local Teacher Training Workshop for the Croatian Language Edition of the JHP Workbooks. Gathering over twenty history teachers primarily from Slavonia, Osijek was the host to the second local teacher training workshop for the Croatian language edition. Present were local language editor and international trainer Kresimir Erdelja, history professor and international trainer Snjezana Koren and director of local partner HUNP and teacher trainer Ivan Dukic. Additionally, history teacher Nikola Damjanovic, one of the participants at the Training of Trainers Conference in Zagreb was present in the capacity of local teacher trainer and delivered one of the model lessons. For full article click here.
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.
