EUROCLIO - European Association of History Educators
Posted in News - EUROCLIO Newsletters
Facing History and Ourselves' online professional development opportunities connect educators from across the world. Invigorate your classroom with new, practical teaching strategies and introduce students to Facing History's powerful approach that helps them link the past to choices they make everyday. Participants can earn graduate credits (optional for an additional fee) and gain access to Facing History's free lending library and online educator resources.
There are two types of online courses were you can register for:
Facing History And Ourseves: Holocaust And Human Behavior Online Course
(June 14–August 8): The twentieth century will forever be marked by the Nazis’ attempt to murder the Jews of Europe. In no other history are the steps that resulted in genocide so carefully documented. The events that led to the Holocaust raise profound moral questions. While the Holocaust was unique, the questions remain universal. This online course includes a conference call with a Holocaust survivor. This course may be taken for graduate school credit for an additional fee.
Choices In Little Rock Online Course
(June 14-August 1): Choices in Little Rock is a rich and engaging exploration of the 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The course traces the legal and personal struggles of African Americans from Jim Crow America through the landmark Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education, and ultimately, to the courageous actions of nine young men and women determined to make desegregation a reality. This course may be taken for graduate school credit for an additional fee.
Posted in News - EUROCLIO Newsletters
The work on the individual volumes of the “German Polish History Textbook” can now be commenced. The next phase in this project can now be completed after publishers have been secured on both the German and the Polish side. The textbook is curricula conform and identical (except in language) and can be used in both countries as conventional textbooks for history lessons in “Sekundarstufe I”. The book coincides with the traditional curricula contents (from prehistory to the present day) with a focus on German-Polish perspectives. With the “German-Polish History Textbook” the Georg Eckert Institute took responsibility for the coordination of a project with great importance for German-Polish relations with regard to education and academic policies. Both sides thus show their willingness to allow the historical experiences of their neighbouring country to be addressed in history lessons and to intensify the scholarly dialogue on historical topics.
For further information click here.
Photo: Presentation of the Recommendations for a joint German-Polish textbook, Warsaw 1.12.2010
Posted in News - EUROCLIO Newsletters
The twelfth German-Czech Textbook Conference, devoted to ‘History Teaching between Mass Media, Textbooks and Teaching Materials’, took place from 26 to 28 January in Prague. Among the talks were empirical studies of the significance of films as educational media, and of the emergence of historical consciousness in the Czech Republic, as well as two presentations of web-based teaching materials dealing with the Czech-German border (www.schulportal-thueringen.de and www.onlinemodule.eu). Discussions focused on the utility of ‘film scandals’ as an object of history teaching, the classroom application of comedy films about dictators, and the degree to which electronic media and historical learning may constitute a fruitful symbiosis.
After its transition to the content management TYPO3, the internet portal DEUFRAMAT (German-French materials for history and geography lessons) is online again, with a new design and various complementary tools. The bilingual portal, which was developed ten years ago with the support of the Robert Bosch foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office, consists of over 100 academic articles on the historical and geographical, societal and cultural relationships of the two countries, from a German and a French perspective. An additional module contains overarching European topics. All texts are the original versions; only the numerous links were reviewed and updated. The relatively stable number of accesses and the continuous feedback show that the articles are used mainly for preparing lessons in schools and as additional materials for bilingual lessons.
In the 26th of April Joke van der Leeuw-Roord (Executive Director EUROCLIO) and Mirjam Zeilmaker (trainee EUROCLIO) gave a workshop about Servant Leadership on the VU Amsterdam. There were some presentations about Servant Leadership in general and in companies before the workshops began. 
The historians of the German-Israeli textbook commission met for the second time on 15th February 2012. The workshop at the Georg Eckert Institute focussed on history textbooks. The experts from the “History Work Group” came together to evaluate progress made so far and to plan the next steps.
