PEACE ACTION ASSOCIATION PRILEP
Total budget: MKD 1,800,000
Timeframe: 01.06.2020 – 31.05.2021
CONSTITUENTS
The target group for this action are history teachers from the primary schools and high schools in the country.
ON THE PROJECT SUPPORTED BY CIVICA MOBILITAS
INTERPRETING JOINT HISTORY IN THE MODERN TIMES
BACKGROUND
The subject History is not included in the strategic priorities of the institutions when it comes to interethnic integration. The curriculum for the subject history has also not been changed since 2005, which is not the case with the other subjects. This curriculum in itself promotes ethnic division, it is binational and this approach is reflected in the history lesson books and thus also in the teaching, although RN Macedonia declares itself as a multiethnic country. Another problem is the lack of training for the teachers on subjects like this.
GOALS AND RESULTS
Goal – Built partnership to build peace in education.
Objective – Strengthened capacities of the history teachers in primary and secondary schools of the Republic of North Macedonia to critically review the ethnocentric historical narrative the history classes are held on.
RESULTS
- An ethnically mixed group of 20 history teachers in primary and secondary schools in the country created;
- Raised capacities of a group of historians, which is encouraged to understand the narrative of the other and work on piloting approaches and methods of treatment of the recent history in the period of the second half of the 20th century and 2001 in the history education in primary and secondary schools;
- Promotion of policies to build peace and culture of remembering among the CSOs, educational and other relevant institutions in the country.
ACTIVITIES
- Contextual development and group creation;
- Thematical dialogue meetings;
- Promotion of culture of remembering and peace building.