The very last workshop in the frame of the GEI-project was held in Tirana on „shared cultural heritage“ from 10-12 December 2015 with old and new participants from Macedonia and Albania. The seminar was conceptualised and executed by Darko Stojanov and Petar Todorov from the Institute of National History and Kosta Giakoumis from the University…
The conference in 2015 will engage closely with Albanian-Slavic and Albanian-Greek relationships in textbooks and historiography. Skopje in Macedonia is the ideal host city for the conference; the Ohrid Agreement signed in 2001 introduced far-reaching rights for the Albanian ethnic group in Macedonia, who make up 25-30% of the total population. The good working relationship…
The last seminar on textbooks from Albania and other South-eastern European countries took place in Tirana, and attracted 30 participants from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The seminar, which is part of a three-year long project, was organised by the Georg Eckert Institute and financed by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Half the…
Between 21 and 23 November, for the first time in the course thus far of the GEI’s project on Albanian-language textbooks in south-eastern Europe, a joint Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin seminar took placein Gracanica, a town with a Serbian majority near Prishtina. The participants, from Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia, tested two units…
Heroes and myths have fascinated humanity since antiquity and they shape our view of history. They can function as screens onto which territorial and national demands are projected. Myths can be created from both characters and events from history that are deemed memorable by a society. The prevailing narrative of the hero or the myth…
The second part of the GEI’s seminar for textbook authors took place in Tirana on 20 and 21 September. While the seminar in Braunschweig was held in English and the institute‘s library was on hand for the participants, the seminar in Tirana could be accessed by a larger number of textbook authors, history teachers and…
Imagine a history textbook without any historical sources at all – this is a daily reality for many teachers in south-eastern Europe. Original sources, as key prerequisites for critical and multi-perspective approaches to historical events, are of crucial importance to history teaching. Between 26 and 28 May of this year, the GEI hosted a seminar…
Shkelzen Gashi: Report on the Debate of the Portrayal of the Ottoman Empire in Kosova-Kosovo History Textbooks. Eckert. Working Papers 2015/1
Besnik Emini: School history textbooks in the Republic of Macedonia Besnik Emini Institute of Cultural and Spiritual Heritage of Albanians, Skopje
Donika Xhemajli: Educational Reform Processes in the Republic of Kosovo Donika Xhemajli History teacher, Prishtina
Ohrid in Macedonia was the setting from 31 March to 5 April 2014 for the Euroclio Annual Conference, which was attended by eighteen Albanian history teachers from Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro; as result of cooperation between Euroclio and the Georg Eckert Institute. In previous years, Albanian participants had been few and far between…
Fifteen guests from south-eastern Europe – ministry representatives, history teachers and textbook authors – visited the GEI at the beginning of December for a week-long workshop in which they explored the potential for improvement in Albanian-language textbooks in the Balkan states. This meeting of experts is part of a project funded by the German Federal…
Albanian-language history teaching is provided in five countries in south-eastern Europe, each with its own national school curricula whose needs and requirements the teaching has to take into account. Textbooks and curricula in this subject are accordingly diverse; some books used in schools are translations of the textbooks provided for the majority-language population in each…
Author: Associate Professor Dieter Nehring, Edited by Simone Britz and Elvir Bećirović Full version available (in German) here: Curricula und Geschichtsbücher in Mazedonien Photo: Saint Jovan church – Ohrid, by Charles Roffey / flickr.com
Author: Associate Professor Dieter Nehring, Edited by Simone Britz and Elvir Bećirović Full version available (in German) here: Curricula and history textbooks in Montenegro Photo: Perast – Montenegro, by MILACHICH / flickr.com
Albanian-language textbooks 