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About the Organisation
The Estonian History Teachers´ Association is a non-governmental organisation. It was founded in 1993 by history teachers from different counties and cities. Members of the association are history teachers and educators from Estonian and Russian Language Schools. The main aim of the association is to support and to develop history education in Estonia
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The original English language publication was jointly published by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), Council of Europe, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009. HREA was retained to develop the Compendium under the guidance of these partners.
This publication holds contributions from two EUROCLIO members; The Estonian History Teachers´ Association and the History Teachers Association of Macedonia.
A PDF file of the French language version can now be downloaded from the Council of Europe website.
The Council of Europe, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Science and The Estonian History and Civic Teachers’ Association have together organised the 5th Congress of History Teachers on The role of History Teaching on 21th Century, from 24–25 October in Tallinn, Estonia. The new history curriculum, which is introduced with this school year, was a good reason to bring many practitioners and academics. The Janar Holm, Chancellor within the Minister of Education and Research informed us that the 4th Congres had taken place in 1935, but that to his surprise many of the same questions were asked such as what is the purpose of teaching history and what to teach. He was happy to notice that the Estonian Association, often supported by EUROCLIO, have been able to work on the professionalisation of the subject and the history educators since 1993. Tõnis Lukas, previous Estonian Minister of Education, currently a member of the Parliament questioned in his talk about the Role of History Teaching on 21th century the benefits of innovative and digital opportunities for history education, as he feared that the whole picture would be lost. Tatiana Milko from the Council of Europe and Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, from EUROCLIO both stressed that new approaches are necessary if we want to reach the 21th Century pupil and to reflect new historical research. 
EAS, the Estonian History Teachers Association organised on May 6-9 2010 in Tallinn a European Workshop on “Multi-perspective approach on learning and teaching History: Different tools to develop empathy and respect for diversity” . There were 36 participants at the seminar from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Turkey, Spain, Cyprus, Creece, Malta, Rumenia and 15 teachers from Estonia. The aim of the seminar was to develop the ability to see and understand the influence of different people, nations and cultures in art, architecture, environment through centuries. Moreover, the seminar aimed to encourage History teachers to use different methods and pedagogical approaches to widen pupils’ understanding of history and culture, i.e. pedagogical programmes of museums, archives, study visits and guided tours in History teaching: How can different pedagogical approaches enrich history teaching, promote mutual understanding, develop empathy and respect for diversity? How is out-of school education as a pedagogical approach included in History teaching in different countries of Europe – good practises? During the seminar participants shared their experience of using different possibilities of teaching in their countries. The event included presentations on how to work with archives – presentation of the virtual reading room of the National Archives of Estonia and the collection of digitazed archival records as well as cultural programme with medieval dances and food and and work in pedagogical programmes of museum.
