Expert Seminar on History Teaching in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Co-operation on History Teaching in Post-Conflict Settings
This document contains the proceedings and recommendations of the Expert Seminar on History Teaching in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Co-operation on History Teaching in Post-Conflict Settings, which took place at the Home for Cooperation in the Nicosia Buffer Zone, Cyprus, on December 13 and 14, 2023. Scholars and practitioners from various academic disciplines including history, history education, social psychology, political sciences, conflict resolution, and peace education discussed the current problems of history education in the Eastern Mediterranean countries of Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine and addressed it in a comparative perspective, i.e. through the cases of Germany? Spain, Northern Ireland and specific cases from Latin America.
The conference was co-organized by the GEI in collaboration with the MAKINGHISTORIES project, the University of Cyprus, and the Association of Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR). The main themes of the conference were curriculum and textbook content, pedagogies and teacher training, memory politics and identity-making intersections, civil society involvement in curriculum design, interdisciplinarity, technologies and history education, and synergies between different history education actors.
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