30 January 2010 - Kick off meeting in Serbia: The CDRSEE met with donors, stakeholders and project partners in Serbia to plan the implementation of the JHP country plan for Serbia in 2010. The team is composed of the Association for Social History, key coordinator Dubravka Stojanovic, PR coordinator Biljana Stupar and CDRSEE staff. Milestones in 2010 will be a second edition of the successful... read more here!
20 January 2010: User's Guide to the Complementary History Teaching Workbooks now available for download. Fresh of the print, the User's Guide to the Complementary History Teaching Workbooks are now available for free download. The books provide teachers with practical guidelines developed by expert methodologist on how to best use the Joint History Project's Alternative Educational Materials. Get your copy by clicking here!
09 October 2009: Do you want to know more about the Joint History Project at a glance? New and updated overviews of the project are now available for free download! The overviews provide for a detailed account of the project's milestones, highlights and organisation. Find out more about the JHP: Detailed Overview of the JHP Summarised Overview of the JHP
The joint history project has been made possible through the kind financial assistance of the
following:
Dr Peter Mahringer Fonds,
The Royal Dutch Embassy in Athens,
Two anonymous donors,
Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture,
UK FCO,
Swiss Development Agency,
Cyprus Federation of America,
Winston Foundation for World Peace
The general coordinator, the four TPs coordinators and contributors from 8 countries met in Belgrade and discussed the aims and the contents of the four Teaching Packs (see the Programme and the Participants' list of the Workshop).
The contributors presented the sources they had found and exchanged points of view with their colleagues from other countries. They discussed the difficulties of choice because in most cases there is an abundance of sources and they would like to have guidance in their final decision. In order to determine common criteria of choice, we tried to identify common points in all national histories in order to furnish comparable data for the different historical subjects that will be treated in the respective TPs.
In general, the discussions followed four basic axes:
To define the main aims of the four TPs
To decide about all chapters and sub-points in each TP
To describe the kind of sources that will be included in each chapter
To decide which country will contribute what to each TP
We decided that three should be our main aims:
To show similarities in history between the different Balkan nations
To show differences in time within the same Nation
Consequently, to show a common but not unifying picture of SE European history
Today we had a couple of guests from the other side… They wished to feel the joy of being on an undivided island and to share the emotions that were always alive in their hearts.
Turkish teacher in North Cyprus describing a visit from a Greek-Cypriot family (2003)
