tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166122852011-04-21T23:12:56.962+02:00Personal daily notes from my internship from September to December in 2005 at EUROCLIO, the European Standing Conference of History Teachers Associations. Subjects may very. <img src="http://www.eurocliohistory.org/images/eurocliokleinnb.gif">jonathan even-zoharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04692321923017493652noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612285.post-1128608449513918062005-10-06T16:12:00.000+02:002005-10-06T16:20:49.526+02:00

The resulting EUROCLIO press release:Stirrings of Bias in Croatia?In September the Croatian Ministry of Education approved a proposal by a group of former special police officers, called “Association Tigar 90/91”, to let war veterans teach about the 1991-1995 Serbo-Croatian war in elementary schools.Some compare this method of nationalistic history teaching with old communist methods and even

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One thing is clear, EUROCLIO is a leftist organisation with a crusading mission to spread critical thinking, democratic values, multi-ethnicity, cross-cultural knowledge and tolerance. To what extent is this a realistic goal and how is it justifible?States like to maintain a broad control on the themes of history teaching, because from their perspective all citizens should at least know the

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Today I had to write more about Croatia and their failing history teaching. The government is following right/winged media by enlarging the percentage of national history in the curriculum and by twisting the history of the serbian-croatian conflict towards the victimisation of the croatian, the free will of the serbian and more.Soldiers are actually teaching about the war and government has not

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While there is hard work in Eastern Europe to establish critical and nuanced history textbooks, history textbooks in the United States face another challenge as new 2005 versions are surfacing. These textbooks face the politically charged subject of the terrorist attacks in 2001, in short: 9/11. Not necessarily a matter of history and identity, teaching about 9/11 does question the American

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While processing several press-releases I encountered the Southeast-European CDRSEE (Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe). Just a small note for now: It is strange how an entire are of the European continent can unite its history in one single textbook, while the old nations of Europe remain Nationalist, or even Imperialist.More to follow.

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Today I was assigned the simple task of ploughing through the Euroclio website in search of bad or broken links. Then I made up a list of possible improvements to the site, and presented the coworkers some additional Search-functionalilty and Calendar-functionality. Pretty easy going for a first day.Oh, and lunch was nice.

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So Tommorow I start my internship at EUROCLIO. My job there is mostly administrative. I will update the official website, transmit newsletters and upgrade the flyer. I also hope to write a comprehensive and systematic article for Prof. R.T. Griffiths where i will be comparing situations in Eastern European countries. All is still very embryonic, but I hope this blog will assist and motivate me in

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