History Teaching
EUROCLIO is constantly seeking to create synergies with other organisations which also promote innovative and responsible history education by dealing with history curricula, textbooks, methodologies, and the transfer of historical knowledge in general. EUROCLIO maintains on-going relations with its partners through exchange of information, invitation to events, and joint implementation of projects.
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Facing History and Ourselves
From 7 to 14 April 2010, Facing History and Ourselves' online workshop for Educators 'Civic Dilemmas: Religion, Migration, and Belonging will be organized. The facilities in this event will provide educators with information related to diverse student population and creation of the sense of belonging in the democratic systems. Resources provided in the workshop will range from classroom materials to scholarly reflections supported by some Facing History publications. All necessary information about the application procedure and the workshop itself can be found on a website.
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Facing History and Ourselves
Titled Facing history and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behaviour, an international seminar will take place in London from 26-30 July. During this Seminar different kind of resources, next to the book with the same name as the seminar, will be used to give participants a good encounter with this history. Perhaps for that reason, participants from very differing countries (i.e. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Rwanda, Ireland and Colombia) are joining this seminar. There’s a new resource as well, namely a study guide for the movie Banished, that tells the story of African Americans driven from there communities during the 19th and 20th century. Questions that will be dealt with during the seminar are those like who to blame for crimes against humanity when generations have passed, and judgment with regard to memory. For more information on this seminar, click here to go to the website where you can find this
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Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves has recently published Teaching Banished, a written resources book focusing on the violent mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s century which drove away thousands of African Americans from their communities, businesses and land never to return again. The publication is accompanied by the documentary Banished by Marco Williams. While the later zooms in on three towns in the United States which were affected, in order to then connect it to the race relations in contemporary times.
The first examines attempts of current residents, descendents, journalists and politicians to raise awareness on this element in history. It is an excellent guide to complement the documentary due to its critical approach by asking questions about memory, justice and reconciliation. As for instance: How does a community reconcile past wrongs and move toward justice? How can addressing the past restore the dignity of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders? The resource book Teaching Banished can be downloaded from http://www.facinghistory.org/banished.
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HEIRNET
The History Educators International Research Network organises its 9th International Conference on 14-17 July at the University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
The HEIRNET conference should be attractive to all workers in the field of History Education, bearing in mind the very close links between History Education and Education for Citizenship and Political Education.
The conference themes cover key issues, concerns and topics of national and international interest and importance.
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AIHE, the American Institute for History Education, organizes every month online seminars on various historical topics presented by history educators, historians, didacticians and academics from around the world. EUROCLIO President Vassiliki Sakka and Senior Manager Jonathan Even-Zohar have given two online seminars on Balkan and Dutch History respectively. Please follow the link in order to watch a seminar that you may find interesting.
