Methodical Guide to History Education in Russia

In the context of the “Uroki Klio” project, three textbooks (The Last Decade, Illusions and Disappointments, Difficult Path to Democracy) and one teacher guide (Methodical Guide) were published. The produced textbooks would like to provoke the debate on history education and will assist history teachers in Russia to meet the new requirements. This teacher guide, entitled “Methodical Guide to History Education in Russia,” will help educators to teach new content and offer new approaches for the learning and teaching of history. After the changes, Russia had to rediscover the past. Academic historians are reinterpreting the Russian history, but their interpretations are regularly changing due to their political point of view. It will take some time before the Russian historians will have the academic distance necessary for an objective as possible approach in their quest for the historical truth. To provoke a change in the system of history education is a long-term project, which demands for long-term approaches. And a change in ways of thinking makes changes like this. To guide this process of change, or at least a trajectory of it, this project was developed.

Authors:

Boytsov, Michail A., Katsva, Leonid A., Khromova Irina S., Korotkova, Marina V., Kushnereva, Yulia V., Saplina, Elena V., Sorokin, Vladislav S., Tchernikova, Tatiana V., Ukolova, Irina E.

Russian experts:

Antoshchenko, Alexander V., Bitiukov, Konstantin, Erokhina, Marina S., Goldenberg, Mikhail, Kushnir, Sergey A., Mitroshina, Galina L., Viazemsky, Eugeniy E.

International experts:

Bluhme Larsen, Lars

Donnermair, Christa

Donk, Ronald Roy

Mckellar, Ian Blair

Russian Coordinators:

Eidelman, Tamara N., Shevyrev, Alexander P.

Language Course and Translation:

Sventsitskaya, Olga M., Sventsitsky, Dmitry V., Sventsitsky, Ivan

Secretarial Staff:

Shapiro, Anna

Shevyreva, Julia

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Find out what New Students Bring to the Classroom
As a response to an increase in new students in the Swedish educational system, the Swedish Board of Education tasked a group of schools and universities to find a way to assess what newly arrived students know in order to provide the best possible education for each student, as well as focusing on their strengths rather than their weaknesses. This resulted in the formation of materials for conducting discourse around history for the purpose of assessing the historical competencies of newly arrived students. This is done in the form of a 70-minute conversation between a teacher and a student. The assessment is meant to provide valuable insight into what the students are already familiar with, so that teachers can take this into account when creating lesson plans.