18 – 20 April 2008: First Training of Trainers Conference for the Bosnian Language Edition of the JHP Workbooks. Overcoming the previous political setbacks to the BiH phases of the JHP, a group of dedicated teachers, trainers and CDRSEE staff successfully carried out a positive, constructive and beneficial Training of Trainers’ conference in Sarajevo. Click here to read the whole article.
15-16 March 2008: Third Teacher Training Workshop for the Albanian Language version of the JHP Workbooks. Following the success of Teacher Training Workshops in Tirana and Elbasan, 34 Teachers from the greater Saranda area where introduced to the JHP and had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with new teaching methodologies and ways to improve in-class interaction with students. The Teacher Training Workshops are sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace, Irish Aid , the Central European Initiative and Dr. Peter Mahringer Fonds. For more information on the JHP and for a free download of the Albanian Language edition please click here
23-24 February 2008: Second Teacher Training Workshop for the Albanian Language version of the JHP Workbooks. The second Teacher Training Workshop for the Albanian Language version of the JHP Workbooks took place in Elbasan, Albania, on February 23 and 24. Twenty teachers from the greater Elbasan area had the opportunity to be introduced to the Workbooks and examined methodologies for their use in class. The Teacher Training Workshops are sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace, Irish Aid and the Central European Initiative. For more information on the JHP and for a free download of the Albanian Language edition please 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.
