European Association of History Educators

Georgian history educators met in Tbilisi for 3 days of fruitful exchange and hard work during the fourth workshop within the EUROCLIO/MATRA project 'Tolerance Building through History Education'. The workshop was attended by more than 50 people coming from different parts of the country and representing the various ethnic communities and religious living in Georgia. The event, held on January 22-24 2010, aimed to further work on the development of teaching materials addressing the key issue of tolerance in a multicultural Georgia. Interesting topics such as a Country without God; Shared Food; Tbilisi Yard and Migration from various countries were interactively presented by the authors of the worksheets. The materials showed  significant improvements related to the variety of sources, the methodological approach as well as the applicability to the classroom. All participants, both those involved since the beginning of the project and the new comers, showed a great motivation to learn from one another and achieve a truly collaborative work. The results of this workshop gave very positive signals to the external observers and monitors from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and the Netherlands and the management team on the fact that the project is truly contributing to the innovation of history education in Georgia. A teacher seminar on Thursday afternoon preceded the workshop. The training, attended by 50 teachers, was promoting the Georgian History Educators Association and offering an workshop on active working methods.

The full report of the event is now available here.

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