European Association of History Educators

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Between August 23rd and 28th the Editing Team within the project ‘Tolerance Building through History Education in Georgia’ will convene in The Hague for a kick-off meeting with the EUROCLIO coordinators. The team members will process the teaching materials created by the authors during the first 2 years of the project and consisting of 26 worksheets about four main topics: Religion, Multiethnic Georgia, Migration and Family Life. The team includes teachers, a textbook author, academics, and is representative of the ethnic diversity in Georgia. Rumyana Kusheva, president of the Bulgarian History Teachers’ Association and resource person for the project, will lead the editing process. A very rich program has been set up for this meeting which will include training sessions on quality improvement and working sessions aimed to develop a framework for the publication. The Georgian team will also have the opportunity to discover the religious diversity of Leiden through a guided tour, to visit the Peace Palace in The Hague, and to exchange with other NGOs representatives working in Georgia. The program can be found here ; for more information, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

On the 5th of July at Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tbilisi, the Georgian Association of History Educators in conjunction with EUROCLIO hosted its first annual meeting with over 150 participants from all regions of Georgia. ‘The event was a huge success, with trainings from local and international experts, democratic elections for a new president of GAHE, Regional branch activity presentations from most regions of Georgia and the ratification of new statutes to ensure sustainability and democratic procedures are at the core of the association’s legal documents. Patrick Barker, EUROCLIO project manager presented the work of EUROCLIO as an active transnational civil society organization, and its growth since 1993 as an example of civil participation in European history education. Thomas Sherlock (Professor of Political Science at the West Point Military Academy, USA) presented a thought-provoking insight into historical memory from the perspective of countries dealing with difficult pasts; tailored to the current situation in Georgia and the recent events and debates in the media regarding the removal of the Stalin statue in Gori.A Full report is available here

On the 21st of March 2010, a coach bus is taking 35 European History Educators from Nijmegen in The Netherlands to Kleve in Germany. At some point, phones start notifying the travelers that they have in fact crossed a border. For most in the bus, this is normal life, for others it is a unique feeling of how a borderless world could be. For some it is everyday life, for others a pursuit for the future. All in all, it is one of the anchored physical expressions of the process of European Integration and therefore a result of History. Do these Teachers and Educators also cross borders in their teaching or is it still a bridge too far to teach common European History?

Click here for the Conference Special Report, or click Concluding Remarks about Dutch History Education to read more about the International participants view of the Dutch Educational system.