European Association of History Educators

On the 5th of September EUROCLIO joins with LANDIS – the National Laboratory for History Education in Italy – and EVROPAEVM to organize an In-Service Teacher Training Event within the “Connecting Europe through History” series for it’s 7th event. A full day programme about “The Transition from an Emigration Country to an Immigration Country” within the context of recent research, the role of the media and History Teaching, is available for download.

Between June 3-6 2010, the sixth event in the “Connecting Europe through History” series took place in Leiden, at the Leiden University, a founding member of the EVROPAEVM. Graduate students from all over Europe shared their original research in small workshops and thought-provoking lectures were to engage with the EVROPAEVM Graduates and Leiden-based Historians about the topic of Migration in History Education in schools and how to teach it from a theoretical as well as a practical point of view. At the final session the students expressed their joy at having participated in the organised event that had been rich in content and very good for their personal development as young scholars. A full report of the event and the ideas shared will be included in the forthcoming project publication, expected in the fall of 2010. given by lecturers from the Universities of Oxford, Leiden and Geneva. The topic focused on migration and the political rhetoric across Europe’s capitals. A special Round Table was organised on the evening of the 4th of June, inviting History Education experts Dr. Elise Stork, History Teacher Trainer, Graduate School of Education (ICLON), Leiden University) and Dr. Stephan Klein, Researcher, Center for Historical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam / History Teacher Trainer, Graduate School of Education (ICLON), Leiden University.

On May 30-31 2010, the fifth event within the “Connecting Europe through History” series took place in Oxford. The topic was “Experience and perception of Migration and Movement in and across Europe”. Lectures were given by well known researchers, amongst others Dr. Renee Hirschon, Dr. Mateo Ballester, Professor Roger Zetter, and Professor Peter Pulzer. A special Round Table Discussion on a role of migration in history teaching was organised, where EUROCLIO Affliates and History Education experts Chris Rowe, Ann Low-Beer, Vikki Askew and Dean Smart engaged in a very vivid debate with each other and with the audience about the nature of teaching history, the realistic goals society has set for it, and the role of a theme like migration in the future of the subject’s place in schools. At the moment only Dr. Hirschon’s presentation a lecture on “Ethnic Movements – the Case of Turkey and Greece in the 1920s” is online in videostream. More presentation and a full report however of the event and the ideas shared will be included in the forthcoming project publication, expected in the fall of 2010.

Between June 3-6 2010, the sixth event in the “Connecting Europe through History” series will be held in Leiden, at the Leiden University, a founding member of the EVROPAEVM. The topic is as relevant as ever, and graduates from all over Europe will share their research and thoughts about migration and the political rhetoric surrounding the topic across Europe’s capitals. A special Round Table will be organised on the evening of the 4th of June, inviting History Education experts, Curriculum Developers, Teacher Trainers and History Teachers to reflect with the EVROPAEVM Graduates and Leiden-based Historians about the topic of Migration in History Education in schools. These debates could possibly be taken as first steps in the next round of reform of the Dutch History Curriculum. Download here the Programme.