What Changes Do School Curricula and History Textbooks Need? The 20th Century in Ukrainian and World History — a 21st Century Perspective

Partner : HREC-PRESS, Thematic Cluster “The Time is Out of Joint”,
Participants : Mar"yan Mudryy, Liudmyla Grynevich, Ihor Schupak, Irina Zakharchuk, Vladyslav Hrynevych, Kostyantyn Bakhanov,
Locations : Museum of ethnography ,

From World Wars, Genocides, and the Rise and Fall of Totalitarian Empires to Scientific, Technological, and Information Revolutions and Ukraine’s Struggle for Freedom: Rethinking the 20th Century in Schools

The 20th century requires a new approach in school history education. This discussion will focus on radically updating the content of Ukrainian and world history curricula and textbooks. In today’s challenging context, school history education should help form a generation capable of remembering with dignity and acting responsibly.

Participants:

  • Vladyslav Hrynevych, historian, political scientist, researcher of WWII history and memory politics, Director of the Institute for Historical Memory Research, PhD in History, Doctor of Political Sciences
  • Marian Mudryi, Ukrainian scholar and educator, textbook author, Associate Professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, PhD in History
  • Kostyantyn Bakhanov, Ukrainian historian, historical education methodologist, Professor at Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences
  • Iryna Zakharchuk, Professor at Rivne Humanitarian University, Coordinator of the Scientific Direction at the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for the Study of the Holodomor (HREC-UA)

Moderator: Lyudmyla Hrynevych, historian, Holodomor researcher, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, NAS of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for the Study of the Holodomor (HREC-UA), Ukrainian representative of the Research Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (HREC), Doctor of History

Organizer: Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for the Study of the Holodomor (HREC in Ukraine)