Romania: Fostering History and Citizenship

Aims

To support the new curriculum and to enhance the understanding and meaning of this curriculum for the learning and teaching of history in Romania;
To emphasis the new curriculum values, such as tolerance, mutual understanding, and democratic attitudes, and scrutinizing, but not abandoning Romanian traditional values;
To set up and strengthen a History Teachers’ Association in Romania;
To develop ready to use teaching materials on appropriate historical topics, offering new methodological approaches;
To train history educators to implement new materials and methodology into classroom practice and supporting them to train and mentor teachers in their localities;
To train history educators according the rules of the Accreditation Commission;
To establish local training branches to act as support centers for history education;
To strengthen and extend the network of innovative pilot schools connected to the Center Education 2000+.

Activities

Six development and training seminars for 50 history educators from a variety of regions in Romania;
Three Annual Meetings of the newly established History Teachers Association APIR-CLIO with the participation of approximately 100 history educators;
Development of a history and civics teaching resource pack;
A Close up Conference, bringing together the results of the project;
Active monitoring;
Participation in international events on the learning and teaching of history.

Outcomes

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European Association of History Educators