Effective teaching approaches for history in primary school
2021-05-27 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Online Lecture hosted by Marjan de Groot-Reuvekamp

Based on a recent review study, this keynote will examine factors that influence primary school pupils’ learning performances with regard to historical knowledge and skills. This study was carried out at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam in preparation for research into the level of pupils’ performances in social studies in their final year in primary education (group 8 -sixth grade), which will be conducted from 2020 to 2022.
Topics covered are:

Objectives for history education in the Netherlands
Teaching of history and social studies in primary schools in the Netherlands
Effective teaching approaches: what are essentials and what is known from empirical studies about the effects of these approaches in history education.

About Marjan de Groot-Reuvekamp

Marjan de Groot-Reuvekamp (the Netherlands) was teacher trainer for History and Pedagogy at Fontys Hogescholen in ‘s-Hertogenbosch from 2006 to 2021. Before 2006 she worked in several Universities for teacher training and in primary and secondary education, including schools for children with special needs. She was a member of the Commission de Rooy, that developed a longitudinal curriculum for History. This curriculum, with ten eras, has been implemented in primary and secondary education and currently (2021) Marjan takes part in the revision of the ten-era-
framework in preparation of the development of new attainment targets.
Marjan has been active in the Board of the VGN (Dutch History Teachers Association) and as treasurer and President in the Board of EuroCLio. She also acted as president of the Organising Committee for the Annual Conference of EuroClio in Nijmegen in 2010. Marjan contributed to the Review of the Canon of the Netherlands (2020) after which she became a board member of the Canon Foundation.
Marjan conducted a PhD on Improving the understanding of historical time in primary school. She published several articles on this topic in educational and scientific journals. Since 2021 she is working as a researcher at the University of Amsterdam in a team, supervised by Carla Van Boxtel, that conducts research on pupils’ geographic and historical knowledge and skills at the end of primary school (group 8 – sixth grade).

About this Keynote

This Keynote lecture is the first of a series of online keynotes on”Teachers as Researchers”. Teachers as Researchers is EuroClio’s Special Interest Group dedicated to all EuroClio’s Members who are practicing teachers or teacher trainers and, at the same time, are carrying out a research in the fields of history, pedagogy, or history education.
All the keynotes in this series will be hosted by members of the Teachers as Researchers Special Interest Group.
Interested in joining this Special Interest Group? Reach out to Alice at alice@euroclio.eu for more information!

Participation Fee

Participation to this keynote lecture is free of charge.

FC EuroClio - Football Meets Society: towards inclusive history education?
2021-05-28 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | online
Panel Discussion with Dr. Kevin Moore, Petra Landers, and Prof. Dr. Gijsbert Oonk.

Football – and sport in general – promotes sportsmanship, a healthy lifestyle and team spirit. Nevertheless, this much-vaunted “power of sport” also has a downside, from which the sport prefers to turn away: violence, racism, sexual harassment, doping, match fixing and subversion. Viewed in this way, sport is a mirror of society. Nonetheless it is this mirror that many youngsters easily can relate to. They share – together with educators, trainers and coaches – a strong passion for the game. Often, they play themselves, they have their favorite national and international clubs and they follow the results almost daily. They know football stories.
To which extent can we use the passion of the game in our (history) teaching and citizenship training to tell stories of equality and inequality, racism, patriotism, gender, migration and diversity?
We have invited journalists, representatives of football clubs, heritage organization teachers and fans to discuss the options and limits of sport and sport- stories as an educational tool. A tool that can used in formal teaching, civic trainings, in club museums and indeed on a grass-root level at the local clubs.
The overall aim of the Football Makes History project is to contribute to the reduction of the number of people at risk of social exclusion across Europe by pursuing these specific objectives:

promote diversity, non-discrimination and equality, including gender equality;
Innovate formal and non-formal learning leading to social, civic and intercultural competences and critical thinking;
support the professional development of educators and youth workers and build the capacity to develop and implement innovative teaching methods;
engage cultural heritage for all by accessing the histories, memories and legacies residing in football history in transnational perspectives on all levels;
raise public awareness on the role of learning for social inclusion and increase the sharing of innovative practices across the continent.

Where do we succeed? What are the limits and possibilities of this approach? To what extent should clubs make use of such approaches?

Meet our speakers

Kevin Moore, Football and sports historian, author, academic.
Kevin Moore grew up in Nantwich, Cheshire, in the UK, an historic market town, which gave him a strong interest in history. He was introduced by his family to football, cricket, pop music and film as a child and these remain great passions in his life! He is a fan of sport in general and is fascinated by the huge variety of sports we have around the world, ancient and modern. Kevin studied history as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Liverpool. He has been a Lecturer in History in Liverpool, and between 1992 and 1997 he was a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, the world’s leading centre of its kind for postgraduate teaching and research. Kevin has over 20 years’ experience as a CEO, including being the Founding Director (CEO) of the National Football Museum for England and the first CEO of a major statutory body.

Petra Landers, footballer, coach, mentor.
Petra Landers is a four time German champion, as well as winner of the 1989 European Cup with the German National Team. When in 1981 Germany was invited to send a team to Taiwan, to play in an unofficial world championship, her club (Bergisch Gladbach) was chosen to represent Germany. In 1982, she became member of the first ever German women’s national football team. After having contributed to the rise of women’s football in Germany and a 9 years pause from the game, she became coach and mentor of a group of girls in Lusaka in Zambia. In 2017, she played in the “Equal Playing Field” match, 5715m high on Mount Kilimanjaro.

This session will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Gijsbert Oonk, who holds the Jean Monnet Chair (ad Personam): Europe in Globalizing World: Migration, Citizenship and Identity. This chair promotes education and research in the field of Global History, European Studies and National Identity. The Jean Monnet chairs are an initiative of the European Commission to promote education, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies at higher education institutions. Oonk is the founding director of the Sport and Nation research program at Erasmus University Rotterdam. This interdisciplinary research program focuses on talented athletes with a migrant background within football and the Olympic Games in the context of changing citizenship, multiple citizenship and elite migration. Gijsbert is also Academic Advisor at EuroClio, especially in relation to the Football Makes History project.

Participation Fee

Participation to this webinar is free.

FC EuroClio: Passing it to the Classroom - A Webinar Series
2021-05-28 17:00 - 2021-06-11 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | online
Some would say football is nothing more than 22 people chasing a ball around a pitch for 90 minutes. Those people are not necessarily wrong, but history is made up of whatever people have come to value, and certainly football – a game played and watched by billions for over 100 years – seems highly valued.
Sport – and particularly football – appeals to millions of Europeans, regardless of their sexual orientation, colour, gender, age, nationality or religion, often becoming a defining factor of identities and communities. Football history is made up of millions of stories, of individuals and communities, of movements and processes, which can open doors to the conversations we need to have in the present, as it helps to promote shared values, equality, non-discrimination and social inclusion.
We are proud to launch our webinar series and thematic month on football history & education.

The design of this webinar series

“FC EuroClio” will consist of three online sessions, taking place on three consecutive Fridays (28/05, 04/06, 11/06). It will open with a Panel Discussion on the Social Significance of Sport. The panel discussion will bring forward voices from various fields, including academia, journalism, heritage, education, and football. The Panel Discussion will be followed by parallel workshops on how football history can be used in the classroom, with examples on how to use it to teach about what is “identity”, the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Europe, and changing borders in continental Europe in 1800 and 1900.
The webinar series will end with an interactive session, during which we will look into how the life stories of (extra)ordinary people can be used to spark discussion in the classroom, and collectively design new life stories.

What will you learn?

During the webinar series, you will:
● Learn examples that address the history of rising fascism and anti-Semitism in Europe, and the formation of the European nation state in the XIX and XX
century;
● Discuss the social significance of sports, and whether there is a space for sport in the classroom, with colleagues from across Europe;
● Discuss your experiences in using sports to teach history with colleagues from across Europe;
● Learn more about the Football Makes History project and its results.

Football Makes History

The ‘Football Makes History‘ project started in September 2018 with the purpose to bring football history to the classroom to:
● Promote diversity, non-discrimination and equality, including gender equality;
● Promote social, civic and intercultural competencies and critical thinking;
● Engage cultural heritage by accessing the histories, memories and legacies residing in football history in transnational perspectives, both at local and national level;
● Raise public awareness on the role of learning for social inclusion and increase the sharing of innovative practices across the continent.
Check out the dedicated website: you’ll find inspiring stories, videos and innovative educational resources.

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar series is free.
Please register to the entire series even if you wish to attend only one session.

Contact us!

Would you like more information on the webinar series?
Please, reach out at secretariat@euroclio.eu with the subject line “football makes history”. We will be in contact as soon as possible.

FC EuroClio - Football History in Practice
2021-06-04 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | online
Hosted by Denver Charles, Enrico Cavalieri, and Stefán Svavarsson (Football Makes History Team)

This session will focus on three lessons that have been developed in the Football Makes History Project:

What does identity have to do with football? – Presented by Denver Charles
This activity focuses on the analysis of historical examples to investigate how particular moments in history influence the formation of people (and club’s) identity, ultimately becoming embedded in it. Ultimately, the activity helps students explore their (multiple) personal identities, and express them to their peers.
You can find this activity on Historiana ->
Disappearing from football and the world – Presented by Enrico Cavalieri
This activity asks students to use historical sources (mostly newspaper articles) to reconstruct the life story of Árpád Weisz, brilliant football player, coach, and victim of the Holocaust. In reconstructing his life story, students learn how to analyse sources and use them to write the biography of historical figures.
You can find this activity on Historiana ->
The European Championships: Euro 2016 at different times – Presented by Stefán Svavarsson
This activity helps teachers and students reflect on just how fluid European borders have been in the last 150 years, and how concepts like nationality and ethnicity can be difficult to define. This activity can be used to tackle the rise of nationalism and the idea of the nation state, and to look into the effects of politics on nationalism during the 19th and 20th centuries.
You can find this activity on Historiana ->

After a short presentation of the three lessons, participants will divide in parallel rooms, where they will experience one of the activity hands on, putting themselves in the shoes of students.

Participation Fee

Participation to this session is free.

FC EuroClio - Local stories to tackle big events
2021-06-11 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | online
Sharing Session facilitated by EuroClio

How can we use the life stories of football, tennis, volleyball players, authors, painters, singers, and other individuals to help our students reflect on issues of inclusion, exclusion, and discrimination? What is the connection between a small and local history, and big world events? How do the life stories of people intertwine with social, cultural, economic and political histories?
In this session, EuroClio Ambassador and member of the Football Makes History team Chris Rowe will walk us through the process that led him to the development of 100+ Football Life Stories (all available on the website footballmakeshistory.eu). How did he select which stories to include? How do the “Thinking Points” come to be? How does he see these life stories enter the classroom?
After a short presentation, we will put his idea to the test: divided in smaller groups, we will add some life stories to the collection. These life stories can be linked to football, but they can also connect to other artists, athletes, or any other individuals. The results of this exercise will be published on the EuroClio website.

Participation Fees

Participation to this session is free.

Webinar for Advanced Users of Historiana
2021-06-16 17:30 - 19:30 UTC
The Webinar series
As part of the DSI4.2 project, EuroClio and Europeana are offering a series of Webinars for advanced users of Historiana.
These webinars are meant to support more experienced users of Historiana to experiment with the eActivity builder and get some tips and tricks on how to create quality eLearning activities.

Each webinar will introduce the participants to the eActivity builder and explain in greater details the reasoning behind the creation of certain eLearning activities. It will also provide some insights on how to make the most out of the eActivity builder. In addition, each webinar will focus on a particular topic, using exemplar content from the Europeana Collections, and a critical thinking skill.

These webinars will take place on 9 December 2020, 17 February 2021, 21 April 2021 and 16 June 2021.

Dates

On December 9th, Helen Snelson created an eLearning activity for the Postwar Europe content and focused on using source material as evidence. (recording)
On February 17th, Bridget Martin focused on the Contributions to WWI and talked about perspective.(recording)
On April 21st, Jim Diskant looked at Visual Representation of women.
On June 16th, Gijs van Gaans examined Schisms within Christianity and discussed change and continuity. (recording)

Historiana
Historiana is EuroClio’s online educational platform on which you can find free historical content, ready to use learning activities, and innovative digital tools made by and for history educators across Europe. The material available on Historiana is greatly provided by Europeana‘s collections.

eLearning Activities

The eLearning Activities are made on Historiana’s eActivity Builder to provide teachers with ready made material which engages directly with historical sources.
They are made by EuroClio’s Teaching and Learning team.
When creating an account on Historiana, it is possible to modify the already existing eLearning activities, or create your own to share with your students.

Not yet an advanced user of Historiana?
No problem, just watch the introduction to Historiana’s eActivity builder and you will be good to go!

Any questions? Feel free to reach out at : lorraine@euroclio.eu

Alternative History Curriculum for Bosnia and Herzegovina
2021-07-08 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
The history teacher’s association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, EuroClio-HIP has realised the project Alternative curriculum for history in Bosnia and Herzegovina – a contribution to promoting humanism in history teaching and facing Bosnia-Herzegovina controversies. With this project, EuroClio-HIP aimed to initiate positive changes for the educational model of teaching history, in teaching plans and history education programs aimed at pupils in the age group of 11 until 15 years old. The aim of the project was to offer alternatives to state curricula, and to inspire creators of education policies.
The event offers the opportunity to share highlights and the ideas of the project on alternative history curriculum in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the EuroClio community. During the live event, Bojana Dujkovic-Blagojevic, Edin Veladžić and Melisa Forić Plasto, members of the project team and EuroClio ambassadors, will elaborate on the project and its approaches, and the need to rethink existing curricula. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and guided discussion, during which the participants have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers and to offer feedback on the alternative curriculum.
Visit this page for more information on the project and to access the alternative curriculum (scroll down for English)
Speakers and Moderator
Bojana Dujković Blagojević: Bojana Dujkovic-Blagojevic graduated from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, where she similarly obtained her Master’s. She was working in parallel as a history teacher and for an NGO for several years. Her expertise includes association governance and development, cross-border cooperation, fundraising, advocacy, and public discourse on history education. She was one of the founders of the history teacher’s association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, EuroClio-HIP, where she holds the role of project manager. Bojana is the author of supplemental teaching materials for history and a co-author of a textbook for culture of religions. During her long cooperation with EuroClio, she has coordinated projects, developed teaching materials and acted as editor-in-chief for the publications for the Balkans region. She has actively worked as a trainer in the projects that are focused on culture of remembrance and in improving the capacities of history teachers. In 2014, she was appointed as a EuroClio ambassador. Ms. Dujkovic is currently working as a regional project coordinator for the European Wergeland Centre.
Edin Veladžić: Edin Veladžić graduated from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 2000 and after that he worked for 2 years as a history teacher. From 2003 to 2007, he was employed at the Institute of History in Sarajevo as an expert associate for modern history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He received his Master’s degree in the Austro-Hungarian period of Bosnian history in 2007. He has completed several professional trainings abroad and is the author of two books in history and cultural policy and co-author of history textbooks for the second grade of high school. Besides being the author of a number of professional and scientific papers, Mr. Veladžić is one of the founders and the first president of the history teacher’s association of Bosnia and Herzegovina EuroClio-HIP. He is an active participant and organiser of a large number of seminars and conferences of professional and scientific character in the country and abroad. He is currently an employee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the position of Expert Advisor for European Integration and International Cultural Cooperation. In 2014, he was appointed ambassador of EuroClio.
Melisa Forić Plasto: Melisa Forić Plasto was born in Sarajevo in 1980. She finished her undergraduate and Master’s degree in history, at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. She works as a teaching assistant at the History department at Faculty of Philosophy University of Sarajevo. Since 2003, she is a member of Bosnian and Herzegovinian History Teachers’ Association EuroClio-HIP and one of its founders. She is author and co-author of several history textbooks for elementary and secondary school and also author of several additional teaching materials. She participated in several international projects dedicated to the history education, culture of remembrance in Bosnia and Herzegovina and region, and during the cooperation with EuroClio coordinated several projects and developed several teaching materials. She also works as a trainer in projects that improve the capacities of history teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. In 2014, she was appointed as a EuroClio ambassador.
This session will be moderated by Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, historian and founding President, Special Advisor and former Executive Director of EuroClio. She founded EuroClio in 1992, and since then she has acquired recognition as an international expert on innovative and trans-national history, heritage and citizenship education. She has initiated and coordinated a multitude of national, trans-national capacity building projects for history and citizenship educators and historians in Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia Turkey and Ukraine.

Practicalities
The live event will take place Thursday 8 July 2021, 6 PM – 7:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom. To ensure the safety of the sharing space, we will not record this session.
Would you like more information on the event? Please, reach out to secretariat@euroclio.eu and we will be in contact as soon as possible.

Do Exams kill Creativity?
2021-07-13 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Hosted by Ilona De Haas – ECSWE and Niko Ginter – History Educator

The project “Personalised and Formative Assessment Practices Supporting School and Learner Development” is currently collecting practices on innovative and formative assessment methods, to answer the question: how can the unfolding of the unique potential of each and every child/youngster through contextualised, individualised, participatory assessment processes that give learners a feeling of agency and self-efficacy be best supported?
Niko Ginter is a history educator and former representative for the European Council of Steiner/Waldorf Education (ECSWE) for Austria. As part of his history program, he developed a simulation-experience for his class 10 history course. The “Game of Ginter” as it was called by his students developed over time to be a vital part of the school’s upper school program and proved to be quite successful in engaging students in their own learning process.
Students did several self- and peer assessments and participated in countless ways in this game. Our webinar will bring you a bit closer to this innovative and highly engaging method of teaching history. As with many good practice examples, there is also a way of looking at students’ progress and defining learning outcomes that are part of this unique approach.
Steiner Schools already have a unique learning experience through the invention of the main lesson. Throughout the year students can engage in subjects that are the main focus for a period of three to four weeks. It allows for a very intense learning experience to take place in a very compact form. Most of the subjects profit highly from this kind of experience. Languages and Mathematics have additional weekly hours in the schedule.
The “game” is also part of Nikolaus’s recent script “Living Education” that should be released as a book later this year.
We would invite you to talk with us about this experience and the ideas behind the simulation experience.
This session will take place, live, on zoom. To ensure the safety of the sharing space, we will not record this session.

Participation Fee and Structure

Participation to this webinar series is free of charge. The webinar series will consist of three live sessions and four pre-recorded sessions.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

Pass or Fail? Assessing Assessment
2021-07-13 17:00 - 2021-08-25 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
A EuroClio Webinar Series on Assessment

If there is one thing that we at EuroClio have learned during the past few years, it is that assessment is a rather complex and multifaceted part of (history and citizenship) education, and that not all teachers feel equipped for and comfortable to assess their students when it comes to formative assessment in the context of topics that might be controversial or sensitive for some of them (see, for example, the Needs Assessment carried out in 2017-2018 within the Learning to Disagree Project). At the same time, during the plenary workshop on assessment that took place in November 2020, all participants agreed that assessment is a key part of (history and citizenship) education.
Many things affect how assessment may be followed out, such as time constraints, diverse classrooms, online formats and the space left for skills and competences. How to carry out assessment in order to benefit the learning process of each individual student?
This webinar series, blending pre-recorded and live sessions, will try to tackle some of these topics, to kick-start a discussion on where we stand when it comes to assessment, and how we can develop new approaches to assessment that are better suited to fulfil not only our needs as educators, but also our students’ needs.

A very special blended format

The ‘Assessment’ webinar series consists of seven sessions, taking place in the summer of 2021, starting July 13 until August 25. The first session will be held live on zoom, followed by four pre-recorded, practical sessions which will be periodically uploaded on our Youtube page. Everything will be followed by a live keynote lecture and a live closing session, where participants will have the possibility to meet the speakers and to share their own experiences. The programme will open with a session on the relationship between creativity and assessment. During this session, we will also explore the connections between state exams and the creativity of students and teachers. During the following four pre-recorded sessions, assessment will be looked at from different perspectives, while providing tips and tricks for good practices.
Participants will be presented tools and methodologies to:

Understand the ethical implications of assessing values and attitudes;
Carry out formative assessment online;
Using formative assessment to update the learning process;
Use the Council of Europe “butterfly” (1) in developing their assessment plan;
Use rubrics for differentiated assessment;
Promote open assessment practices.

The pre-recorded sessions will be followed by a keynote lecture on the ethical implications of assessing values and attitudes. The keynote lecture will be hosted by Prof. TAN Oon Seng (Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD) at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Followed by this, a short Q&A session will take place, as well as an opportunity for participants to share their initial thoughts and hopes about the coming sessions.
The series will end with an live interactive session, where participants will discuss their thoughts about the dedicated sessions with their peers and the designated speakers. Participants will also have an opportunity to share their personal reflections, tips and insights on assessment.

What will you learn?

During the webinar series, you will:

Understand the role that attitudes and values play in learning about historical events and how to consider these in assessment;
Investigate the tensions between central exams, curriculum constraints, and assessing skills and competences;
Exchange experiences and thoughts about victories and failures of assessment practices;
Learn about formative assessment as a way to update learning to promote positive development.

(1) In 2016, the Council of Europe issued the “Competences for Democratic Culture”, a document which highlights various competences and skills that we should help our students develop to be active and engaged citizens. The butterfly the “butterfly” is a visual organizer that shows what the Competences for Democratic Culture are.

By registering, you will be added to a mailing list which will receive the links to join the live sessions, as well as direct links, updates, and additional material (if applicable) every time a pre-recorded session is made available online.
Participation to this series is free of charge.

Contact us!

Do you want to know more about this webinar series? Do you have a great assessment method that you would like to share with your colleagues? Have you recently read a book / listened to a podcast about assessment, which you want to recommend to your colleagues?
Let us know by emailing us at secretariat@euroclio.eu!

Online formative assessment
2021-07-21
Hosted by Sally Thorne (The Historical Association) and Simone Beale (co-founder of the History Teacher Book Club).

In the past year and a half, most of our teaching practice has been transferred online, including assessment. Despite the slow return to in-person teaching, it looks like online lessons and online assessment are here to stay. In this pre-recorded session, we will present some tools and practical tips and tricks to carry out online formative assessment.
This session will be pre-recorded by EuroClio and published on our YouTube channel on 21 July 2021.

Would you like to be notified once the video will be uploaded?

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

Improving the learning process with formative assessment
2021-07-28
Hosted by Ute Ackermann Boeros (EuroClio Ambassador and Board Member).

Assessment is sometimes seen as a negative, and as judging, rather than a tool for development and improvement. This session will be focused on how to use assessment as a tool to improve the learning process. In addition, we will focus also on how to keep the assessment process open enough, so that students can understand the benefits? In other words, how to not treat formative assessment as a secret.
This session will be pre-recorded by EuroClio and published on our YouTube channel on 28 July 2021.

Would you like to be notified once the video will be uploaded?

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

Using the Council of Europe Competence Butterfly for assessment
2021-08-04
Hosted by Ann-Laure Liéval (EuroClio Ambassador and Board Member) and Benny Christensen (EuroClio Ambassador)

In 2016, the Council of Europe issued the “Competences for Democratic Culture”, a document which highlights various competences and skills that we should help our students develop to be active and engaged citizens. This session will focus on how to use the “butterfly” (a visual organizer that shows what the Competences for Democratic Culture are) to design assessment.
This session will be pre-recorded by EuroClio and published on our YouTube channel on 04 August 2021.

Would you like to be notified once the video will be uploaded?

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

The use of rubrics and features of quality in assessment
2021-08-11
Hosted by Anthony Malone and Majella Dempsey (Maynooth University)

In this session, we will focus on the use of rubrics. Anthony and Majella will introduce us to what kind of rubrics are available for teacher, how to design your own rubric, and how to use rubrics to assess each student in a way that fits their personal needs.
This session will be pre-recorded by EuroClio and published on our YouTube channel on 11 August 2021.

Would you like to be notified once the video will be uploaded?

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

The ethical implications of assessing values and attitudes
2021-08-19 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Keynote Lecture hosted by Prof. TAN Oon Seng – Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

During this session, hosted by Prof. TAN Oon Seng, we will focus on how to assess students’ values and attitudes, and on its ethical implications. In particular, we will be talking about assessing values and attitudes in the history classroom, both in theory and in practice.
The keynote lecture would be followed by a short Q&A and sharing session, with a question prepared to guide the conversation.
This session will take place, live, on zoom. To ensure the safety of the sharing space, we will not record this session.

Participation Fee and Structure

Participation to this webinar series is free of charge. The webinar series will consist of three live sessions and four pre-recorded sessions.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

Active discussion groups on assessment and sharing of best practices
2021-08-25 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Closing Session hosted by the EuroClio Staff

During the last session, we will host separate breakout rooms on the four topics of the pre-recorded sessions. Participants will be able to join one or more rooms, to discuss their thoughts about the topic at hand. In the second half of the session, we will host a sharing of best assessment practices in the form of a virtual poster marketplace or speed dating exercise, depending on the amount of participants.

Participation Fee and Structure

Participation to this webinar series is free of charge. The webinar series will consist of three live sessions and four pre-recorded sessions.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.
If you would like to see more webinar series like this, please consider joining us as Individual Member!

Fragility of Democracy – Keynote on the allure of authoritarianism and modern populism
2021-09-15 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Online
Keynote lecture hosted by Prof. Takis S Pappas

To deal with the challenges that modern democracy is facing today requires that we have mastered our concepts, spotted the various challengers, and considered how they relate to the current problems and future prospects of modern democracy. This keynote clarifies the concepts of liberal democracy and populism, distinguishes between populist and nativist parties, and shows how those two different types of parties affect liberal democracy in Europe and beyond.

About the workshop host
This keynote lecture is given by Prof. Takis S Pappas (PhD, Yale) is a former professor of political science in Greece and currently a scholar associated with the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has written several books of which the most recent is Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has produced several policy briefs, a TED-Ed video on populism, and a series of infographics that popularize the topics he does academic research on. He is a regular columnist in major Greek newspaper Kathimerini and maintains the blog www.pappaspopulism.com. He lives in Brussels, Belgium, and Athens, Greece.

Registration is now open.

Participation Fees

Participation to the keynote lecture is free of charge.

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

A Resilient Promise: Teaching the Fragility of Democracy
2021-09-15 17:00 - 2021-10-27 19:00 UTC
“What are the challenges that democracy is facing today?”; “How can we deal with these challenges?”; “Why, regardless of them, is democracy worth fighting for?”. But, most importantly, how can we discuss these and more key questions about democracy with our students?.
As the world celebrates the International Day of Democracy on 15 September, we will kick off our webinar series on “A Resilient Promise: Teaching the Fragility of Democracy”. During 6 weeks of online events, we will reflect not only on how to help our students learn about democracy, but also how they can contribute to making it more stable and safe.

The Design of this Webinar Series

The series will consist of five sessions. It will kick off with a keynote on the allure of authoritarianism and on modern populism, hosted by Prof. Takis S Pappas, which will help us set the tone for future sessions by putting us in touch with first-hand experience of individuals who were part of extremist groups in their youth, what appealed to them, and how did they decide to leave this path and promote democracy and
understanding. The keynote lecture will take place on 15 September 2021 at 17:00 (Amsterdam Time), and it will be followed by three active workshops. Each workshop will give participants practical advice and access to tools to promote:

How to balance between conflicting democratic rights when discussing controversy?
This workshop will be hosted by Dr. Bjorn Wansink and the team of TerInfo, and will take place on 30 September 2021 at 16:00 (Amsterdam Time).
An understanding of the history of democracy. This workshop will be hosted by Gijs van Gaans, and is inspired by the eLearning Activity on “What can we learn from the Ancient Greeks for democracy today?”. It will take place on 11 October 2021 at 17:00 (Amsterdam Time).
Engagement and Activism. This workshop will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Rolf Gollob (Zurich University of Teacher Education), and will take place on 19 October 2021 at 17:00 (Amsterdam Time).

Teachers as Changemakers: The webinar series will close with an interactive session where participants will have the opportunity to share the obstacles they encounter when talking about democracy in their classroom, and to discuss approaches on how to overcome these obstacles. This session is currently set to take place on 27 October 2021 at 17:00 (Amsterdam Time).
The dates are confirmed, and you can already register to this workshop by clicking on the button on the right!

What will we learn?

During the webinar series, we will:

Discuss how different generations may view democracy;
Discuss the role that expressing extreme viewpoints has in the classroom;
Discuss best practices for Teachers as Changemakers.;
Investigate the different democratic activities that are available for young people;
Be introduced to tips and tricks to lead debates involving contrasting points of view;
Discuss your experiences regarding the challenges that non-democratic systems pose for the future.

Registration is now open.

Participation Fees

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.
Not sure if you would like to join the full series? Join our keynote lecture free of charge and take a peak at our work!

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

Connecting to History through Graphic Novels
2021-09-25 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Online
What is a graphic novel? How could graphic novels be used as a source of engaging with history in the classroom? What are existing novels that look at history through a critical lens? How do we tell stories of difficult pasts through this medium? How might you go about creating your own graphic novels? This is an introductory workshop that will discuss some of these questions with space for brief activities with participants.

Simultaneous translations from English are offered in Sinhala and Tamil. Ensure to join through the desktop application to access these channels.
Register on Zoom ->

Workshop Leaders:
Misko Stanisic is a co-founder of Terraforming, an NGO based in Novi Sad in Serbia. Since 2008 he has developed educational methodologies and teaching materials in the field of teaching about the Holocaust and combating antisemitism, anti-gypsyism and other forms of xenophobia, combining best practices in contemporary pedagogy with new-media technologies.

Irushi Tennekoon is an illustrator, animator and educator based in Sri Lanka. She has a background in English Studies with a particular academic interest in graphic memoirs and teaches at the University of Colombo. Most recently she produced an animated series ‘Animate Her’ on exceptional female role models working and living in Sri Lanka.

Fragility of Democracy - How to balance between conflicting democratic rights when discussing controversy?
2021-09-30 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Online
Workshop hosted by dr. Bjorn Wansink (Utrecht University, Dynamics of Youth) and Maxine Herinx (Utrecht University)

Teaching history or social sciences is a challenge nowadays. The world is polarized. We are confronted with terrorist attacks, pandemics and unstable global politics and all these events have great consequences for many. Uncertainty caused by these crises can lead to heightened distrust of others with different cultural or political backgrounds; it also can make people more conformist and people’s moral judgements can become harsher.
In this workshop we will discuss how teachers can respond to polarizing narratives and can balance between essential democratic rights, such as: freedom of speech and the right not to be discriminated. We consider schools as labs for democracy in which students can learn to disagree and learn to deal and act with different opinions harmoniously. During discussions, students can learn how to express disagreement with each other, within the boundaries of respect and moral decency towards each other. As John Dewey said: “Democrats are made, not born”. For example: how to discuss confronting and discriminatory memes in the classroom?
About the workshop host
This workshop is given by dr. Bjorn Wansink (Utrecht University, Dynamics of Youth) and Maxine Herinx (Utrecht University).
Both trainers are part of the project TerInfo. TerInfo is a mobile web platform aimed to increase societal resilience against terrorism and other disruptive events in primary, secondary, and post-vocational education. The platform helps teachers to discuss controversial topics with groups of different ages in a clear, factual, responsible and engaging way. TerInfo is an initiative of Utrecht University and led by prof. Beatrice de Graaf.

Registration is now open.

Participation Fees

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.
Not sure if you would like to join the full series? Join our keynote lecture free of charge and take a peak at our work!

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

Fragility of Democracy - Workshop on "Understanding the history of democracy"
2021-10-11 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Workshop hosted by Gijs van Gaans.

This workshop is inspired by the eLearning Activity on “What can we learn from the Ancient Greeks for democracy today?”.
Fragility of the Ancient Athenian Democracy
The Ancient Athenian Democracy was one of the first democracies in world history, and perhaps also one of the most far-reaching ones. All citizens were allowed to speak up in the Assembly, which was the equivalent of parliament, could serve as juries and judges and could hold office. At some point taking part in the Assembly was even paid, enabling even the poorests citizens. However, this democracy was at the same time quite frail. Not only was citizenship, and thereby civil power, restricted to Athenian, freeborn and adult males. Women, slaves and people from foreign origin had no significant power. Also, in the first century BCE, this democracy radicalised, giving populists more power than they ever had. This radicalisation led to cases of serious mistreatment of Athens’ allies and seems to have contributed to policies that led to her defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
This workshop explores the development of the Athenian Democracy from prior constitutions as oligarchy and tyranny. It will discuss the frail elements in the democratic constitution and the social causes that led to it’s radicalisation in order to draw some cautious lesson for our world today.
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About the workshop host
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Gijs van Gaans (1976) studied history and religious science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He has taught history and latin in secondary schools. From 2009 onwards he has worked as a teacher trainer/ lecturer of didactics in history and religious education at Fontys University of Applied Sciences and since the start of this academic year also at Amsterdam University. His main interests are the development of a critical historical consciousness and developing skills that allow for inter-wordview dialogue.

Registration is now open.

Participation Fees

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.
Not sure if you would like to join the full series? Join our keynote lecture free of charge and take a peak at our work!

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

Using Oral History in the Classroom
2021-10-16 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Online
EuroClio and historicaldialogue.lk are pleased to invite to a new workshop on creative teaching methods. This time we look at strategies for using oral history in the classroom.
We explore theoretical underpinnings, discuss connections to curricula, provide step-by-step strategic guidance for designing and implementing a project, and explore completed and ongoing oral history projects.

The workshop is part of History that Connects – Sri Lanka, an initiative to support the development of History Didactics in Sri Lanka, but we encourage all educators with an interest in oral history for use in education to join the workshop.

Join us on Saturday 16 October at 12:30PM CEST / 4PM Colombo. Registration is free of charge and the workshop will feature simultaneous interpretation from the English original to Sinhala and Tamil.

Fragility of Democracy - Workshop on "Engagement and Activism"
2021-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Workshop hosted by Prof. Dr. Rolf Gollob, Zurich University of Teacher Education.

Democracy thrives on change and adaptation to current living conditions. Politics is the instrument and the form of these adjustments. Politics in a democracy gives citizens the opportunity to get involved in the processes of change or to take them into their own hands. What opportunities does a democracy offer? How do changes or adjustments happen? Where does resistance come from and how can it be understood or overcome? In the session ‘Engagement and Activism’, participants will get to know an exciting instrument that helps them and their students to observe and understand processes of change, but also helps young people to become active and get involved themselves.

About the workshop host
Rolf Gollob, Prof. Dr. h.c., was founder and co-head of the Department International Projects in Education (IPE) at Zurich University of Teacher Education from 2007 – 2018. Initially he has worked as a primary teacher before he studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich and then became lecturer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. For the last 25 years, he worked at this University in the area of democracy and intercultural education and has been a consultant in a global context focusing on teacher training, issues of competence-orientation in schools and higher education institutions, text book and curriculum development.

Registration is now open.

Participation Fees

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.
Not sure if you would like to join the full series? Join our keynote lecture free of charge and take a peak at our work!

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

Active workshop on How does Propaganda Work
2021-10-27 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Hosted by Helen Snelson, EuroClio

This workshop is inspired by the Historiana learning activity “How does propaganda work?” At the end of this activity, students will be able to define the term propaganda and identify different techniques that are deployed to make propaganda work. They will consider how the intended audience for a piece of propaganda shapes how it is produced and presented. They will categorise and analyse some sources which are propaganda from World War I. They will then identify for themselves some examples of modern propaganda and compare them to the definitions and the propaganda from 1914-18 to assess the similarities and differences between the historic and the contemporary. They will produce a short ‘how to?’ guide to present to younger students to demonstrate their learning.

About Helen Snelson
Helen Snelson is a EuroClio ambassador and the Curriculum Area Leader for the Secondary History Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course. She is a member of the Historiana Teaching and Learning Team. Helen Snelson is an experienced education trainer and secondary school teacher. Helen Snelson has worked for many years on the development of history education projects. She taught for 20 years in a variety of 11-18 secondary schools, and she is a Chartered History Teacher.

You can check out the activity on Historiana at this link: https://historiana.eu/learning-activity/how-does-propaganda-work

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar is free of charge.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees. If you would like to support us, please consider becoming an individual member!

Discussion Groups: How do we deal with Disinformation in the Classroom?
2021-10-27 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Hosted by EuroClio Ambassadors

The webinar series will close with an interactive session where participants will be asked to think of a situation where they have come across a student spreading disinformation to pupils and how they dealt with it. Participants will share their experiences and learn new techniques and methods to combat the spread of fake news and information.
In this session, we will:

discuss teachers’ experiences of students sharing disinformation in the classroom, including where the students had gathered the information and how the teacher has faced the situation.
troubleshoot together approaches to similar cases.
network, share our own experiences, and build new synergies.
discuss what could be the next steps for EuroClio in an effort to promote critical thinking skills that help facing Fake News and Propaganda.

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar is free of charge.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees. If you would like to support us, please consider becoming an individual member!

Fragility of Democracy - Session: Teachers as Changemakers
2021-10-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
During this session, we will learn more about system change theory and about how we can become actors of change within our classrooms and our communities.
The session will focus on two goals:

learning about what is the theory of system change and how our skills and mindset can help us bring about meaningful change
thinking concretely about what steps we can take to accelerate our journey as changemakers

To do this, we will first reflect on how do we approach the educational / democratic / social system in our local contexts, and specifically on what we can do to work within it or on it to make it better. Then, we will discuss together three main questions:

the story of ME – why do I care about history teaching? What is my connection with it?
the story of US – what is the value of my network and of the EuroClio community as a group of people that have similar values and share a mission and can make change happen together?
the story of NOW – why is it so important that somebody acts now?

We hope we will be able to leave the session with one concrete step that each of us will take in our classrooms / local contexts / museums / families / etc. that will help us bring about a little change.

The session will be designed and moderated by Fernande Raine, founder and director of the History co:lab. Here’s some more details about her (from the history co:lab website:
Fernande is led by a lifelong conviction that history can be fuel for a new, inclusive democratic culture. She obtained her History PhD from Yale, and early in her career worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Innosight. She ran the Human Rights Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and launched and led the “Measurement in Human Rights” project. She also launched five programs (including Western Europe programs) during 11 years as an intrapreneur at Ashoka, and co-led the research effort into systems change leadership. Fernande learned history in a German high school in the 1980s, as if the future of civilization depended on it. She was engaged in multiple ways in the strengthening of democratic practices among students after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Before we start…

Before joining this session, we invite you to check out this Ted Talk from Simon Sinek on “How great leaders inspire action”. It will help us get in the active and engaged mindset that will make sure we will have a great session!

Registration is now open.

Participation to the webinar series is free for all EuroClio Individual Members, as well as for Members of our Member Associations.
If you are not a Member, you can register to single sessions for a fee of 15 EUR, or register to the full series for 35 EUR.
Would you like to become an Individual Member? Register here.
Not sure if you would like to join the full series? Join our keynote lecture free of charge and take a peak at our work!

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

Key-note lecture on “Defining Propaganda and Fake News”
2021-11-10 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
Hosted by Dylan Wray, Shikaya

We will add a description of the session soon!

About Dylan Wray
Dylan Wray is the co-founder and executive director of Shikaya, a non-profit civil society organization that acknowledges the increasing role of teachers in building up South Africa’s democracy. Shikaya supports teachers and school leaders to educate and teach young pupils to become responsible, active citizens who think critically and engage socially in their country’s democratic processes. Dylan Wray is the co-author of an online blog A School Where I Belong – Creating Transformed and Inclusive South African Schools (www.aschoolwhereibelong.com), on an online platform dedicated to the transformation and belonging in schools. Dylan Wray is a former History teacher. He wrote and created numerous educational resources and textbooks to help young people to grapple with ethical and moral decision-making.

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar is free of charge.

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees. If you would like to support us, please consider becoming an individual member!

Fake & Real: a webinar series on Propaganda and Fake News
2021-11-10 17:00 - 2021-12-01 19:00 UTC
In 2017, BBC launched a special series on the grand challenges we face in the 21st Century. In this series, a panel of experts was asked to indicate what they believed were the biggest obstacles faced or to be faced by modern societies. Many of them mentioned “the breakdown of trusted sources of information” as one of the most urgent challenges. They argued that, while the need to figure out which source of information is reliable has been a constant throughout history, what magnifies the size of this challenge today is the sheer amount of available information, as well as how people have access it. To this we should add the fact that, as Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired magazine and tech author) said to BBC in the 2017 series: “Truth is no longer dictated by authorities, but is networked by peers. For every fact there is a counter fact. All those counter facts and facts look identical online, which is confusing to most people.” And even when mistakes are spotted, “corrections do not spread very well” (Paul Resnick, University of Michigan).
This can be said for a variety of topics, including history, current affairs, or sensitive and controversial issues. Today, it is no longer only a matter of who is ‘right’ and who is ‘wrong’. It is first and foremost a matter of what is ‘fake’ and what is ‘real’.
Luckily, there are many resources and methodologies out there that can help us develop lesson plans that foster media literacy and critical thinking. During this webinar series, we will present some that we and the members of our community have tried, discussing with you their positive aspects, as well as potential pitfalls.

The Design of this Webinar Series

The webinar series will begin with a keynote lecture dedicated to defining fake news, propaganda, the relationship between the two. During the keynote, we will also discuss what is the impact of fake news on students, and how we as educators can equip them with the tools necessary to navigate and evaluate the information they are exposed to.
The keynote will help us set the tone for the remaining sessions, and will be followed by two active workshops. In the first workshop, we will discuss how media content can be purposefully developed to manipulate the reader, and how we can help students spot manipulation and become resilient to it. In the second workshop, we will focus on how to help students deconstruct (historical) examples of propaganda, how it works, and what is its effect on society.
The webinar series will conclude with interactive discussion groups, during which participants will have the possibility to discuss their own approaches to propaganda and fake news in the classroom. The fourth session will include also an official, festive, closing in the form of an educational game.

What will we learn?

During the webinar series, we will:
• Engage in a dialogue about Fake-News, Propaganda, and their impact on (history) education.
• Obtain a historical perspective to the notion of ‘Fake’ in Europe.
• Share educational initiatives and equip teachers with ready-to-use material and methodologies which contribute in teaching media literacy and promoting students’ critical thinking.
• Discuss how to equip students with tools to help them navigate the stream of information they are constantly exposed to, become more resilient to the effects of propaganda, and grow into active citizens in the democratic space.
• Exchange innovative tools, methods, and professional knowledge with other educators in Europe and beyond.
• Introduce history and citizenship educators to the educational material developed by the House of European History, which is also available on Historiana.eu

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar series is free of charge

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees.

The Power of Song
2021-11-11 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Online
Do some songs refer to a significant historic moment or time? Remember when a song brought back memories? What do the words of that song even mean? Songs have been used from propaganda to national anthems and beyond throughout history.
Join the workshop on the Power of Song and learn how to use carefully chosen songs in your history classroom. How might you deconstruct parts of a song in a fun and interactive way?
Workshop Leaders:
Elise Storck and Hiranyada Dewasiri
This event will be in English and Sinhala with simultaneous interpretation to Tamil.

Active workshop on the use of media to manipulate readers
2021-11-17 05:00 - 19:00 UTC
Hosted by Laurence Bragard, House of European History

In this workshop, we will discuss the definition of ‘Fake’. Laurence Bragard will provide riveting examples of falsification throughout history, from antiquity to the present era. We will underline the specific historical circumstances of each fake entity in several case studies, including the development of knowledge and modern science, the rise of consumerism and the advent of mass media and social media. We will discover how forgers have proven to be experts with their fingers on the pulse of their times, responding with pinpoint precision to the needs and expectations of their age. You will also be invited to play a Forgery Quiz hosted by the famous forger, Han Van Meegeren, Explore, Practise & Reflect on disinformation and Snap Judgement.
Learning outcomes of the workshop:

Raise awareness about how facts, techniques and emotions can be blended in different media;
Prepare learners for an active role in society by increasing their competence when using media;
Increase insight into how different media may be biased and how we are influenced by this;
Develop critical thinking skills

About Laurence Bragard
Laurence Bragard develops, co-ordinates and delivers the formal learning offers of the House of European History. She has worked with school, youth and family audiences in museum and gallery settings for over 16 years. She has extensive experience of Object-Based Learning, and has played a key role in developing the educational collections of the House of European History. Laurence has taught onsite and online teachers’ workshops for eTwinning, EuroClio and various history fairs for teachers.

Participation Fees

Participation to this webinar series is free of charge

We would like to thank our Individual Members for their support in developing this webinar series. The topic has been selected based on input from all members, and the recordings of our sessions are (partially) supported through individual membership fees. If you would like to support us, please consider becoming an individual member!
