1-3 July 2011 - Teacher Training Workshop in Subotica. The JHP keeps up its pace in Serbia, with its upcoming workshop in Subotica on 2-3 July! The workshop, funded under the IPA programme of the European Commission, will welcome 29 teachers and provide them with an opportunity to learn about the JHP methodologies and familiarise themselves with the workbooks. The participants will be assisted in creating their own model lessons based on the training, so as to consolidate their new skills for further use in class. As with all the JHP workshops, the training will aim at allowing history teachers to provide their pupils with participative, balanced and critical lessons, to foster tolerance and mutual understanding among the next generation of SEE citizens. The workshop, implemented in cooperation with the Croatian National Council in Subotica, will be guided by Goran Miloradovic, from the Association for Social History (Belgrade). Mr. Miloradovic, CDRSEE's long-standing partner and experienced trainer, will work jointly with Kresimir Erdelja, key member of the History Education Committee, and member of the CDRSEE's implementing partner (HUNP) in Zagreb.
June 2011 - JHP in Montenegro. Montenegro is one more country which will join the JHP and which will, in its own language, offer to its teachers and students a new manner of understanding history. Two prominent Montenegrin historians, Zvezdan Folic and Dragutin Papovic, are editors of the Montenegro language edition which will be printed by the end of the year. It is also our pleasure to collaborate with the Ministry of Education and the Institute for textbooks as a co publisher. Click here to read the whole article and see the video files.
30 May -1 June 2011: Set up meetings in Tirana, Albania. CDRSEE kick started the next phase of the Joint History Project (JHP) in Albania, with a series of meetings with partners and local authorities. More specifically, the CDRSEE met important actors in the education sector such as the Center for Democratic Education and the History Teaching Association in Albania, as well as the Educational Advisor of the Prime Minister and the Head of European Integration at the Ministry of Education. The aim of these meetings was to draw up an action plan that will ensure successful implementation of the JHP in an inclusive and cooperative manner. The JHP in Albania strongly benefits from the valuable contributions of its local representatives Mr. Helian Demiri, who is the Editor of the Albanian language version of the JHP Alternative Educational Materials and Dr. Valentina Duka from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana.
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
Report on the planning meeting: Thessaloniki
The general coordinator and a committee of five members who are also the coordinators of the four teaching packs met in Thessaloniki in order to plan the structure of the whole project and the contents of the Teaching Packs (TP).
The Project Coordinating Committee (PCC) includes the following members:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christina Koulouri, Greece, Chair of the History Education Committee, as general coordinator
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Halil Berktay, Vice-Chair of the History Education Committee - Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey as coordinator of TP 1
Kresimir Erdelja, history teacher and textbook author, Zagreb, Croatia as coordinator of TP 4
Asst. Prof. Dr. Valery Kolev – Sofia University, Bulgaria as coordinator of TP 3
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Murgescu – University of Bucharest, Romania as coordinator of TP 1
Asst. Prof. Dr. Mirela-Luminita Murgescu – University of Bucharest, Romania as coordinator of TP 2 During the planning meeting the PCC decided the following:
A. CONTENTS OF THE TP
1. General structure
* Each TP will have the following structure:
General Introduction written by the general coordinator presenting the whole concept of the TPs and offering methodological instructions to teachers
Introduction different for each TP written by therespective coordinator where the specific theme of each TP will be presented (basic definition; points of debate; new perspectives)
Three to six chapters (thematic sections) as presented below. Each chapter will be introduced by a short introduction
Chronology (Table of events)
Maps
Selected bibliography
(a) common for all countries
(b) specific for each country *
Questions and tasks will be included into the chapters asking students to use the material presented in the TP. The material is going to be various according to the particularities of each topic and the accessibility of the sources in each country (documents, photos, drawings, old maps, statistics, caricatures, newspapers, graphics, tables etc.)
B. COORDINATORS
Coordinators will design the packs, collect the material from all countries and supervise the final outcome. Each coordinator will write short introductions for all thematic sections and a general introduction in English for the teaching pack for which he/she is responsible. They will compose a chronology (table of events) and an annotated bibliography for their TP. They will also find and/or design maps for their TP.
They will find translators from their languages into English and vice versa.
C. CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors will have the following duties:
Collect material for all 4 TPs providing also information about every source
Compose a chronology of the events in their country for all 4 TPs
Compose an annotated bibliography in their language for all 4 TPS
Find translators from their language into English and vice versa (only the ones from Albania, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Slovenia and FYR Macedonia)
Read the final versions of each TP in their language
Write a page describing WWII events in their country
Check the costs of reproducing photos, legal rights for publishing documents etc.
