History Teachers Association of Macedonia
Contact Information
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str. 60 No. 37, Volkovo
1000 Skopje - Macedonia
Phone number: 00389 76 403011
Fax number: 389 2 2037 805
About the Organisation
About
HTAM (History Teachers Association of Macedonia) is created with the main aim to help in the process of modernization of history teaching in Macedonia. HTAM (History Teachers Association of Macedonia) is organized on voluntary base and all teachers from primary and secondary school same us a different profile of historians with an interest in the field of improving and modernization of history teaching in Macedonia are free to participate. Until now more then 50 teachers whose involved in different activities on national and international level. Except the President, Board of HTAM has 4 more members, which are elected for 3 years.
HTAM vision
HTAM think that the Macedonian educational system especially on the field of history teaching must be put under modification. Creation of network of responsible history teachers, who will deal with that, is their first task. Focusing on cultural, social and history of everyday live with special point on the positive links between different communities in Macedonia is our vision. Implementing of multiperspectivity us a part of teaching should be the tool for realization of that vision. HTAM considers that all that is possible to be achieve with developing of critical thinking and active learning. HTAM finds the observation that a “we and them” vision on society is becoming more dominant worrisome. All mentioned above give us an empty space for acting us responsible association and promoters of peace and stability across mutual understanding and cooperation with all other teachers in Macedonia and in the region. According to HTAM, the current curriculum is missing social, cultural and everyday history as well as multiperspectivity, whereas political and military history is overrepresented. The newest curricula give the opportunity to learn have to “own” national histories. HTAM tries to provide a meeting point. HTAM aims to help students “not just to now, but to understand history”. Teachers in Macedonia very rare use multiperspectivity, critical thinking and active learning methods in the classrooms, usually because they are not so familiar with that methodology. We have the same situation with critical thinking and active learning too. HTAM tries to promote these modern methodologies.
Activities
HTAM’s activities until now are connected with modernization of history teaching and establishing of network on national and international level. Some of themes are:
- 1999 become member of EUROCLIO
- 2000-2003 common project with Albania and Bulgaria “Understanding a shared past, learning for the future” with EUROCLIO
- Participation on different conferences, seminars and projects on national and international level organized by EUROCLIO, Council of Europe, SDRSEE, George Eckert institute and more.
- Playing us a resource persons, observers, experts on different events connected with history teaching
- 2007 national project “Retelling the history” with EUROCLIO
- Establishing of bulleting of our HTAM which is closed because of missing of financiers
- National project focused on students “Unity in diversity”
Posted in Full Members
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.
Anticipating the new EUROCLIO/Open Society Institute Project “History that Connects. A multi-perspective, inclusive approach to teaching sensitive history in the countries of the former Yugoslavia” as well as the submitted Project proposal to the Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs entitled “History that Connects Macedonia. How to Address Controversial and Sensitive History in the Schools of Macedonia”, EUROCLIO Senior Manager Jonathan Even-Zohar together with President and Vice-President of the History Teachers Association of Macedonia Mr Mire Mladenovski and Mr Besnik Emini respectively, held a series of project management and network meetings in Skopje between October 25-25 2010. The meetings specifically helped the team to get more updated about the diverse programmes and policy actions that have been developed in the country since the 2006/2007 EUROCLIO/USIP Project “Retelling the History”. Meetings were held with the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, which has itself conducted a large research into teaching in a multi-ethnic environment, the British Embassy and the British Council as well. In addition, the team has been able to obtain an observer seat at the Macedonian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Conference “Launch of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Social Cohesion”.
