Posted in Programmes - Former Yugoslavia: History that Connects Macedonia
The first meeting in the new project “History that Connects – Macedonia”, which is kindly funded by the Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took place between 18-21 September in Skopje. Together with Project Coordinators Mire Mladenovski and Besnik Emini, an implementation strategy was discussed, for the project to be in line with the Ministry’s Strategy on Steps towards Integrated Education. For this purpose also meetings were held with the Minister of Education Mr Kralev, with senior officers of the OSCE and USAID, as well as with the Ambassador of Belgium to Macedonia, Mr Michielsen.
The Association of History Educators in Macedonia, ANIM, and EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators have then been asked by the Macedonian Minister of Education Mr Kralev in Skopje on 19 September 2011 to make an overall scan of the process of textbook production and publishing, resulting in a systematic analysis with guidelines on how to improve it and propose concrete interventions in the process. They received this request in the framework of the EUROCLIO/Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs Project History that Connects Macedonia.
The Project management have decided to put this study into the wider framework of a study into the present state of teaching history in Macedonia and will therefore concentrate on a variety of issues such as the history curriculum and its development, class room practice, pre-service and in-service teacher training and the procedures for school, national and university entrance assessment. The inquiry will target on the role of the main actors such as the Ministry of Education, The Bureau of Educational Development, the Education Inspection, the National Agency for textbooks and also on Trainers, Teachers, Trainee students, school students and parents. The research will focus on a wide variety of questions and will use literature study as well as oral interviews with and written questionnaires among stakeholders. The Organizations want to present as result of the study recommendations how to further the developments in innovative and responsible history education in Macedonia. Moreover, over the course of the coming year 3 teacher training seminars are envisaged as well as strengthened regional participation from Macedonia in the Regional History that Connects-Programme.
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