German-Polish History Textbook enters the next project phase

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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.

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Photo: Presentation of the Recommendations for a joint German-Polish textbook, Warsaw 1.12.2010

German-Czech Textbook Conference in Prague

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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.

DEUFRAMAT is back online

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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.

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Servant Leadership Across History VU Amsterdam

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In the 26^th 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. 

Instead of talking about an exemplary Servant Leader in history during the workshop, we decided to give a short presentation about EUROCLIO. We explained our mission and aims and some challenges we encounter during our projects. When the participants were informed about this we discussed a case study wherein the participants could actively apply the principles of Servant Leadership in order to get two conflicting parties to discuss their history.                                                                                                   

The event was concluded after a short panel discussion wherein Joke also participated and a beautiful presentation by Joan Ferrier about her father Dr. Johan Ferrier, a good example of a Servant leader.