Expert Seminar on History Teaching in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Co-operation on History Teaching in Post-Conflict Settings
This document is the proceedings and recommendations from 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 the 13th and 14th of December in 2023. Scholars and practitioners from history, history education, social psychology, political sciences, conflict resolution, and peace education discussed the current situation and problems of history education in the Eastern Mediterranean countries of Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine but also in Germany, Spain, and Northern Ireland. Experts from European organizations, such as the Georg Eckert Institute - European Forum for Reconciliation and Cooperation in History and Social Sciences Education (GEI/EFREC), EuroClio - European Association of History Educators, and the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE) of the Council of Europe (CoE) also participated in the conference, sharing their experience on several issues related to their scope of work. The main themes of the conference were curriculum and textbook content, pedagogies and teacher training, the use of technology, the intersections between politics and identity-making, the involvement of civil society in curriculum design, interdisciplinarity, and synergies between different history education actors.
The report is currently being edited and will be published shortly.
