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
The four Workbooks
In order to achieve the aims set out by the Joint History Project, the CDRSEE, created four Alternative History Education Workbooks, designed to be introduced with teacher training and ongoing teacher support.
The Workbooks are arranged thematically and approach the events of the region in a multiperspective manner.
These materials have been created by aninternational team of teachers, historians, pedagogues, translators and editors over a period of6 years, working in a participative, inclusive and democratic manner. The team comprised around 60 individuals, from all over Southeast Europe and the material in the books is drawn from all of the countries in which the JHP is being implemented.
2 collaborative meetings involving all contributors took place in Thessaloniki and in Belgrade, to design and decide on the methodology and content of the books.
The documents, content, questions, notes, pictures and methods of each book were assessed and edited by teams of independent teachers and historians at workshops throughout the region:
The Ottoman Empire: Assessed in Istanbul, July 2003
Nations and States in Southeast Europe: Assessed in Bucharest in November 2003
The Balkan Wars: Assessed in Cyprus, 2003
The Second World War: Assessed in Zagreb, September 2003
