Do you know what your grandparents think of young people?
2025-01-16 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
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This webinar is part of the Changing Democracies Webinar Series. Please see a full overview of all webinars in this series here.
Description
During the webinar, we will present a learning activity that has been developed around the question “Do you know what your grandparents think of young people?” that you can do with your students. You will have the opportunity to work on it and provide some feedback.
This webinar series is part of the Changing Democracies project in partnership with the Association for History Education in Greece, Autres Directions, Borderland Foundation, Evens Foundation, Flemish Peace Institute, In Medias Res, Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Research Institute in Art, Design and Society at the University of Porto, Mediawise Society, Museum of Slavonia, Open Lithuania Foundation, and School for a Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. You can learn more about the project by visiting its website here: https://www.changingdemocracies.eu/.

Do you dare to challenge your teachers?
2024-12-19 17:00 - 18:30
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This webinar is part of the Changing Democracies Webinar Series. Please see a full overview of all webinars in this series here.
Description
During the webinar, we will present a learning activity that has been developed around the question “Do you dare to challenge your teachers?” that you can do with your students. You will have the opportunity to work on it and provide some feedback.
This webinar series is part of the Changing Democracies project in partnership with the Association for History Education in Greece, Autres Directions, Borderland Foundation, Evens Foundation, Flemish Peace Institute, In Medias Res, Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Research Institute in Art, Design and Society at the University of Porto, Mediawise Society, Museum of Slavonia, Open Lithuania Foundation, and School for a Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. You can learn more about the project by visiting its website here: https://www.changingdemocracies.eu/.

Testing Lesson Plans: a Case Study in Place-Based Learning
2024-12-16 16:00 - 17:30
In this last webinar of the Monument(al) Challenges series, we will focus on the practical application of lesson plans developed for teaching contested historical legacies through monuments.
This session will feature Ute Ackermann Boeros and Lidija Županić Šuica, who will share their experiences piloting lesson plans and offer valuable insights into how they were received by students. They will reflect on the successes and challenges encountered during the implementation, and provide feedback on the methodologies used. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the real-world impact of these educational resources, and learn how to adapt these strategies for their own teaching contexts.
For an overview of the Monument(al) Challenges webinar series, click here.
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Watching Videos Like a Historian: Creating and Presenting
2024-12-03 16:30 - 17:30
Creating and Presenting is the third and last webinar of a series consisting of three different episodes. In order to see a full overview of all three webinars, please click here. This webinar series is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian project, funded by the European Union.
The whole series focus on providing teachers with hands-on activities to create engaging lessons for their classrooms. Each episode will highlight a different domain of the Media Literacy Competence Framework, which outlines the key steps for history education to develop media literacy skills in students. The Framework is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian Toolkit, which will be shared with participants during the webinar. More details will be announced soon.
This last episode aims to:

Provide tips for micro-activities for media creation during class and how they can be connected to teaching critical thinking.
Provide tips for teachers on creating and assembling their own sources.

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Contested histories and monuments in teacher training
2024-11-27 16:00 - 17:30
The third webinar of the Monument(al) Challenges series will address how to approach monuments and contested histories in teacher training. For an overview of the Monument(al) Challenges webinar series, click here.
This session, we are thrilled to have Benny Christensen and Christoph Sproul presenting Confronting Memories’ valuable work. They will introduce key learning activities from the Pedagogical Guide – Teaching history through the use of World War II memorials, sharing practical insights on incorporating these resources into teacher training.
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Evaluating and Judging
2024-11-06 16:30 - 17:30
Evaluating and Judging is the second webinar of a series consisting of three different episodes. In order to see a full overview of all three webinars, please click here. This webinar series is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian project, funded by the European Union.
The whole series focus on providing teachers with hands-on activities to create engaging lessons for their classrooms. Each episode will highlight a different domain of the Media Literacy Competence Framework, which outlines the key steps for history education to develop media literacy skills in students. The Framework is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian Toolkit, which will be shared with participants during the webinar. More details will be announced soon.
This second episode aims to:

Show how historical media can be used in civics education.
Provide tips on how to adapt the Toolkit’s offer to the local context.

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Charlottesville and Confederate Monuments in the US
2024-11-04 16:00 - 17:30
The second webinar of the Monument(al) Challenges series will introduce a range of teaching resources for addressing contested historical legacies in the classroom.
For this session, we are pleased to welcome Maureen Stephens (Choices Program at Brown University, Providence, USA) who will talk about the contested legacy of the Confederacy in the US, and in particular on the lesson plan that the Choices Program developed on the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the wake of the white supremacist ‘Unite the Right’ rally in 2017.
For more on their work, you can explore the Choices Program.
For an overview of the Monument(al) Challenges webinar series, click here.
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Searching and Finding
2024-10-23 16:30 - 17:30
Searching and Finding is the first webinar in an upcoming series of three different episodes. In order to see a full overview of all webinars in this series, please click here. This webinar series is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian project, funded by the European Union.
The whole series focus on providing teachers with hands-on activities to create engaging lessons for their classrooms. Each episode will highlight a different domain of the Media Literacy Competence Framework, which outlines the key steps for history education to develop media literacy skills in students. The Framework is part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian Toolkit, which will be shared with participants during the webinar. More details will be announced soon.
This first episode aims to:

Provide easy-to-use activities and showcase how the Toolkit’s offer can be modular.
Show how teachers can search for historical media.

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Teaching contested histories and monuments
2024-10-21 16:00 - 17:30
The first webinar of the Monument(al) Challenges series will focus on secondary education teachers’ experiences and approaches to teaching contested historical legacies. In order to see an overview of the Monument(al) Challenges webinar series click here.
For this purpose, three educators from Denmark, France, and Italy will share their experiences, teaching case studies on monuments like the Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture in London, the Mind the Map project and Decolonize your City initiative, as well as discussing complex topics such as the Israel-Palestine situation in their classrooms.
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