This Study Guide was developed as part of the project Critical History: Adapting history education to the challenges of today’s digitized, globalized, and diverse societies in Europe. An Erasmus+ Project (2020-1-EE01-KA201-077997), the project was led by Tallinn University.

The Study Guide is aimed at students at teacher trainer colleges, as well as practicing history teachers. It contains four main chapters, each with accompanying teaching practices:

  • Cultural heritage in history education (Dr. Mare Oja, Tallinn University)
  • Public history and history education (Prof. Joanna Wojdon, Wroclaw University)
  • Global perspectives of history education: global history, world history, big history, the anthropocene, and post-colonial history (Prof. Susanne Popp, Augsburg University)
  • The role and influence of the internet in history education (Miljenko Hajdarović / EuroClio)

The Study Guide is available in English, Estonian, Polish, Spanish and German.

  • Feeling the Museum: putting oneself in the shoes of students with special needs to understand how to provide the best didactic experience possible
  • Students as Mediators of Conflicts
  • 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.