Fostering History and Citizenship Education in Romania

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• To provide history teachers with materials, tools and skills for citizenship education through history in the classroom.
• To promote mutual understanding and tolerance, and to combat stereotypes, prejudices and myths.
• To develop and implement educational material for citizenship education through the learning and teaching of history.
• To generate a wide group of people able and willing to continue the process of democratisation through history education.

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Educational resources:

• Development of a teacher resource pack with innovative educational methodology and historical content focussing on democratic skills and civic society through the learning and teaching of history.

Size and amount: ca. 100 pages. 2500 copies

Training:

• Education of an innovative core group of history educators and textbook authors.
• The use of a wider group of at least 40 history educators including teacher trainers, textbook authors and curriculum developers to pilot and implement the resource book and examples of good practice.

Network Building & Enhancing:

• Bring together a national network between history educators and others who stress the role of history education in the light of democratic and civic society.
• Empowering the professionalism of APIR-CLIO.
• Enhancing the sustainability of APIR-CLIO.
• Development of APIR-CLIO as a teacher service institute.
• Setting up a group of pilot schools to pilot and implement the resource book and examples of good practice.
• Setting up a group of monitors to observe the developments of the project at the schools.
• Involvement of international experts on the topic of history and citizenship education from the EuroClio network.
• Involvement of observers from neighbouring countries to discuss the issue of democratisation.
• Strengthening the international network and acquiring new ideas and approaches by participation of international activities on history teaching.

Dissemination & implementation:

• Dissemination of one copy of the resource book to 2500 secondary schools in Romania.
• Dissemination and implementation of the resource book among the members of the Romanian History Teacher Association APIR-CLIO, Center Education 2000+, Universities, Pedagogical Universities, Ministry of Education and Research and Research, National Council for Curriculum, National Assessment and Evaluation Service, National Agency for teacher training, pilot schools, etc.
• Dissemination of the resource book to a wider audience, among others via the media.
• Strengthen the multimedia centre of pilot schools in order to implement the methods of the resource book.