Georgia: Tolerance Building
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Contact InformationThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (President) Zestafoni str.# 5,fl.10 0192 Tbilisi - Georgia This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone number: +995 32232688 Fax Number: + 995 32966522 About the OrganisationThe Georgian Association of History Educators is an independent nongovernmental professional organization. It was established in 1997 by the small group of historians, especially authors of history textbooks, and history teachers. Later, in 1998 professors of two main Georgian universities and most active history teachers of Tbilisi Public schools joined it. From the same year GAHE became the member of EUROCLIO and board members participate in its annual conferences and professional training development courses. Since 2008 the GAHE has branches in Gori and Batumi regions, and in perspective there will be in all 12 regions of Georgia. The sphere of activities of the Georgian Association of History Educators includes the arrangement of professional conferences on issues related to history teaching, the organization of workshops, the roundtables and professional training and development courses. The GAHE coordinates history educators’ activities not only in Tbilisi universities, schools and scientific centers, but also all around Georgia, and cooperates with similar organizations and scholars working in this field in other countries. The Association uses various means of mass media, in order to advertise its activities and disseminate professional information about different aspects of history education not only among professionals, but to a wide public |
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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
The Georgian Association of History Educators (GAHE) over the past few months has continued to work very hard on the continuous process of outreach to new history educators. In late April there was another meeting with representatives from the association presenting the association and the current EUROCLIO/Matra project to 50 history educators from the Samegrelo region of Georgia. The result of the meeting means 2 new regional branches have been established within the GAHE; an Abkhazian branch (for refugee history teachers from Abkhhazia) and Samegrelo branch for the districts within Samegrelo. The assocation hosted an event in Zugdidi, the capitol of Samegrelo at the Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State Institute. The event was also an opportunity to source new schools in which to pilot the developed materials. The GAHE have worked very hard over the last 2 years to extend memebership of the association to new history teaching professionals and strengthen the GAHE as an effective civil society organisation. For more information please contact
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The GAHE recently created in September 2009 a new regional branch in Kakheti. The first activity of this branch was organised in combination with the project workshop in Telavi. On October 22, around 50 teachers from Kakheti region gathered at Telavi University and received training on multiperspective history education by Joke van der Leeuw-Roord and Rumyana Kusheva. A good number of members of the Kakheti regional branch took afterwards part in the project workshop. On November 21, the branch will organise a special meeting for the opening of its office in one of Telavi public schools. In November, the new branch in Samtskhe-Javakheti region was created and held its first event on November 15 at the Akhaltsikhe State Institute, managing to attract a good number of history teachers from every district of this region including teachers from the minorities’ schools, as well as representatives the local museum, students and academics of different faculties. The GAHE is at the moment also working very actively on the development of the Association’s website, the acquisition of a central office and resource centre in Tbilisi, and the official recognition as a teachers’ training institute.
