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NEWS FROM EHISTO

Index

Concept of the final publication, part I

Report about 3rd meeting in Salamanca

EHISTO in UMEA/Stanford conference

Results of work packages 6, 7 and 8

Announcement of the Wroclaw conference

Further Echoes of EHISTO in China

EHISTO network

EHSITO related events

September 2014

Presentation of the concept of the final publication - part I Miriam Hannig (University of Augsburg)

The main outcomes of EHISTO will be summarized in a final publication, which will

be available as print and digital online version at the end of the project. The final

publication consists of three different parts:

1) EHISTO report and main outcomes

2) Interdisciplinary approaches

3) Exemplary studies from different European countries

Fourteen articles present the state of the art of the use of popular history maga-

zines - as didactical materials in schools and beyond. Different analyses of natio-

nal markets of popular history magazines, comparative accesses, experiences

gained in schools and group discussions are topics which will be discussed in the

final publication. In this newsletter, and the next one, we will present some of the

articles in a short summary.

EHISTO Newsletter #3 September 2014

The EHISTO-project will last from

November 2012 until October 2014.

During that time this newsletter will

provide an up-date of the project

activities. This third edition informs

about the concept of the final publi-

cation, the third project meeting in

Salamanca, results of various Work

Packages, and a presentation about

popular history magazines in China.

Apart from giving an insight of the

project work the newsletter invites

you to get acquainted with the pro-

ject members and the partner

schools, who will introduce themsel-

ves in every edition of the newslet-

ter. Finally each issue will present

other relevant activities and events

related to the EHISTO-project. The

EHISTO-team is pleased to launch

this third issue of the newsletter. In

case you want to subscribe to the

newsletter please refer to the

websi te :

www.european-crossroads.de/

newsletter/.

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EHISTO Newsletter #3

Bygone news.

The journalistic formatting of history

Fabio Crivellari

Illustrating history in a plain way by highlighting news values

and journalistic rhetorics history magazines are treating the

past as a journalistic subject. The article claims for looking

at journalism as the major narrative in mass media society

and therefore in popular history products as well.

Fabio Crivellari, Dr. phil., lecturer on History and Media at

the University of Constance, exhibitions and media projects

esp. for educational purposes, several publications on medi-

a history and public history. Main research interests: medial

logic of historical narratives, history politics, history/heritage

marketing.

Popular knowledge communication in history maga-

zines from a perceptual psychology point of view

Manuela Glaser

History magazines present historical information in a more

or less entertaining way. The article analyses these strate-

gies of presentation, discusses how they influence the

recipients' psychological processing, and describes history-

specific aspects of knowledge acquisition.

Manuela Glaser, Dr. rer. nat., Psychologist and Research

Scientist at the Institut für Wissensmedien / Knowledge Me-

dia Research Center in Tübingen. Main research interest:

learning with uncertain information in historical reconstruc-

tions, edutainment, and informal learning in museums.

Popular historical writing from a narratological

perspective

Stephan Jaeger

The chapter analyzes the degrees of narrativity that can be

found in popular historical representations by analyzing

examples from popular historical books, history magazines,

documentary films, and the historical museum. It discusses

narrative devices such as experientiality, the simulation of

historical presence, and the focalization of collectives that

are particularly relevant for popular historical writing.

Stephan Jaeger is Full Professor of German Studies at the

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Extensive publi-

cations, including two monographs and five co-edited books,

on historiographical narratology, history and literature, docu-

mentary history in historiography, film, and the museum,

representations of war, and romantic and modern poetry.

The use of powerful men, naked women and war to sell.

Popular history magazines in Sweden.

Monika Vinterek

This investigation was made within the frame of the interna-

tional project “History sells” with the aim to examine how

history is presented to laymen under commercial conditions

and what particular didactic means and strategies are used

to make the content of the magazines appealing to the

reader.

The article presents an overview of the history magazine

market in Sweden from the last decade of 1900 to July 2011

with a closer look at the two biggest magazines. The front

covers of issues from five years have been described and

analysed on the basis of which time periods, places, main

topics and images that has been referred to.

The number of magazines increased during the period stu-

died and the number of issues sold each year for each ma-

gazine rose tremendously. Twelve magazines were found

that present popular history. Eleven of these could be found

in newsstands and in stores and one was a web magazine.

Most of the readers were men, about twice as many as wo-

men.

An examination of the popular history magazines' own

presentations reveals many similarities. Dramatic events,

excitement, fun and entertainment are the sort of words

used to express what some of the magazines want to give

the reader. The analysis of the front cover pages reveals

some clear trends. It is the history of Europe, the 1900s,

which dominate the overall impression. The use of headlines

and images referring to Hitler and war, often the Second

World War, and also nude women, seem to be strategies

that magazines choose in order to sell.

The ambitions which the magazines express themselves do

not seem to correspond with the findings of investigation of

front covers. The study raises many questions that need to

be further investigated. What is learnt by these magazines is

perhaps the most important one.

Monika Vinterek, Professor in Educational Work and Re-

search Director of Education and Learning at Dalarna Uni-

versity and Visiting Professor at Department of Applied Edu-

cational Science at Umeå University. Main research inte-

rests: General Didactics and History Didactics, teaching and

learning in the area of educational practice.

The other summaries of the articles will be presented in

the next EHISTO newsletter.

Presentation of the concept of the final publication – part I

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EHISTO: European

History Crossroads as

pathways to inter-

cultural and media edu-

cation

LLP-Comenius-Project,

11/2012-10/2014

Coordinator: University of

Augsburg, Department of

History Didactics

Consortium: University of

Augsburg (Germany), Uni-

versity of Salamanca

(Spain), Academy of Łódź

(Poland), Dalarna University

(Sweden), University of East

Anglia (United Kingdom),

FWU Institute for Film and

Pictures in Science and

Education (Germany)

Partner schools: Holbein-

Gymnasium, Augsburg

(Germany), Gymnasium

Friedberg (Germany), St.-

Thomas-Gymnasium,

Kammeltal (Germany), IES

„Campo Gharro“, La Fuente

de San Esteban (Spain), IES

„Federico García Bernalt“,

Salamanca (Spain), Zespół

Szkół Integracyjnych nr 1 w

Łódź (Poland), Borgaskolan,

Gävle, (Sweden), Östra

gymnasiet, Trångsund

(Sweden), Hellesdon High

School, Norwich (United

Kingdom).

Consultans: Prof. Dr.

Susanne Kinnebrock, Uni-

versity of Augsburg

(Germany), Ass. Prof. Dr.

Katja Gorbahn, Aarhus Uni-

versity (Denmark), Prof. Dr.

Meng Zhongjie and Shen

Chencheng M.A., East Chi-

na Normal University Shang-

hai (China)

Sponsors: EU-Lifelong

Learning Programme, Bava-

rian Research Alliance

Website: www.european-

EHISTO consortium — Third meeting in Salamanca (Spain)

EHISTO Newsletter #3

Third EHISTO-project meeting from 11 - 14 May 2014 in Salamanca Miriam Hannig (University of Augsburg)

From 11 - 14 May 2014, the project partners of the EU-project "European History Crossroads as Pathways to Intercultural and Media Education" (EHISTO) met upon the invitation from the Augsburg-based project coordinator Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp (Chair of History Didactics) for the third project meeting in Salamanca, Spain. Valen-tina Zangrando M.A., Alicia García Holgado M.A. and Prof. Dr. Francisco José Gar-cía Peñalvo from the University of Salamanca hosted the meeting. The EHISTO partner were represented by: Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp and Miriam Hannig (University of Augsburg), Joanna Szczecińska M.A. (Społeczna Akademia Nauk/ University of Social Sciences), Dr. Thomas Nygren (University Dalarna), Prof. Dr. Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia) and Susanne Friz (FWU Institute for Film and Pictures in Science and Education). The consortium was very pleased to welcome also the ex-ternal evaluator Dr. Nick Kearney and the Consultant Chencheng Shen M.A. from the East China Normal University Shanghai.

Objectives

The focal point of the third EHISTO-project meeting was the presentation of the final-ized manual for initial teacher training and the handbook for in-service teacher train-ing. All partners worked in close cooperation with teachers and student teachers to evaluate and to improve the handbooks, which are now available as free online downloads on the EHISTO-website! Terry Haydn, as work package leader for the piloting and finalizing of the handbook for the initial teacher seminar, explained the evaluation outcomes, which were “overwhelmingly positive” (for further explanations, cf. results of work packages. WP7, this newsletter p. 5) to the consortium. The Swe-dish team coordinated the evaluation process of the in-service teacher training and tested the advance training course within the conference for in-service teachers “Historical thinking and digital aids in history teaching” hosted by the HUMlab (Umeå University, Sweden) and Stanford University (USA) (cf. results of the work packages. WP 8, 3rd EHISTO newsletter, p. 5 and further information about the advance train-ing course from HUMlab, 3rd EHISTO newsletter, p. 4).

Chencheng Shen - a PhD student of University of Augsburg and scholarship holder of China Scholarship Council - presented some interesting research results of the popular history magazine market in China (cf. further echoes of EHISTO in China, 3rd EHISTO newsletter, p.6). Thanks to the commitment of the EHISTO consultant Meng Zhongjie, the EHISTO-project is well known in China.

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EHISTO Newsletter #3

EHISTO in Umeå - Stanford

Conference and in-service

teacher training

Thomas Nygren (HUMlab, Umeå University )

Challenges in Teaching: Historical Thinking and Digital

History. Umeå Stanford conference on History Educa-

tion, May 5-May 6, 2014. Conference for researchers in

history education and digital humanities:

http://www.humlab.umu.se/en/events/history-education-

2014/:

On May 5-6 researchers from Sweden and Stanford, USA,

met at HUMlab to analyze challenges and potentials in digi-

tal media and assessments in history teaching. Workshops

and discussions pin-pointed pivotal future research. Thomas

Nygren arranged the conference and presented ‘EHISTO

Digital Learning Objects’ for national and international schol-

ars in history education and digital humanities.

Historical thinking and digital aids in history teaching.

Umeå Stanford teacher conference, May 7, 2014. Confer-

ence for in-service teachers:

http://www.humlab.umu.se/en/events/historical-thinking

-and-digital-aids-in-history-teaching/:

Researchers from Umeå and Stanford met teachers and

presented the latest research on historical thinking and digi-

tal aids in history teaching.

The conference for in-service teachers “Historical thinking

and digital aids in history teaching on May 7 presenting ma-

terial from EHISTO and Stanford History Education Group

was highly appreciated by the participants. The in-service

teachers were “very satisfied” with the day and they made

comments like: “Just great – and somehow it made me feel

a better and more competent teacher”, “The material I have

seen is excellent” and “I would love to see a follow up”. The

researchers that designed and implemented the day all look

forward to future collaborations in research and furthering

education.

Evaluation of the project results

The evaluation of the different project outcomes was very

important in the bygone project phase. Joanna Szczecińska

- who was responsible for the design of all evaluation ques-

tionnaires - presented the positive results to the steering

group.

The external evaluator Nick Kearney initiated several fruitful

group discussions about transnational aspects in EHISTO,

the main results, challenges and further steps or options to

continue. The partners discussed several possibilities about

“how to sell the idea of EHISTO” to different target groups

(for example teachers, school principals, parents or politi-

cians) and summarized ideas, how a grassroot-effect could

be created.

Dissemination and Sustainability

Susanne Friz presented the wide range of dissemination

activities, organized by the partners. All partners attended in

many different conferences and informed about EHISTO.

The consortium is more than pleased to gain EUROCLIO,

the European Association of History Educators as partner

and is looking forward to cooperate in different fields of re-

search and mediation of history.

Prospects

The further planning of the final conference in September

2014 in Wroclaw (Poland) in close cooperation with the In-

ternational Society of History Didactics was finalized. The

EHISTO consortium will present their project outcomes via

ten lectures which combine the state of the art of research

on popular history magazines as a part of “history edutain-

ment world” - with special focus on transnational and inter-

cultural comparative perspectives (1) and learning opportu-

nities and empirical research results about the usability of

popular history magazines in the history classroom (2) (cf.

Announcement: Final meeting and presentation of the re-

sults, 3rd EHISTO newsletter, p.6.).

The conference itself will be recorded and will be available

via the EHISTO-website. All EHISTO results, including all

abstracts of the final publication (cf. Presentation of the con-

cept of the final publication - part I, 3rd EHISTO newsletter,

p. 1), will be presented via EHISTO-project website, the final

publication will be also available as print at bookshops.

Thomas Nygren presents EHISTO at the Umeå Stanford conference

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Workpackage 6: Piloting and finalizing teaching material

and teacher manuals

The Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), as responsible

workpackage (WP) leader, coordinated the practical applica-

tions of the results of the already designed Learning Objects.

The WP was devoted to test the practical application of

EHISTO-project outcomes (teaching materials and teaching

manuals) in the associated schools and to evaluate their use

in classroom activities with pupils. During the 2nd semester

of the school year, teachers coming from EHISTO associated

schools used the digital modules in their classrooms, focus-

ing in particular on transnational, intercultural and media criti-

cal aspects and bilingual History teaching. The feedback

collected from the answers of the questionnaires (designed

by the Quality WP leader, University of Social Sciences, Po-

land) has been used for reviewing both EHISTO Learning

Objects and teacher manuals.

The results have been described in the Evaluation Report,

which includes an overview of the pilot phase implementation

and the analysis of the evaluation questionnaires received

from the teachers. Suggestions for the improvement of

Learning Objects and teacher manuals are provided as con-

clusions. The handbook is available on the project website

for downloading.

Participating teachers particularly acknowledged and appre-

ciated different aspects of the digital modules: They highlight-

ed:

the availability: The digital modules offer a quick and

easy access to content and activities “ready to be used”,

develop content from more than “one teacher’s work”,

are useful for both students and teachers.

the offer of different approaches (transnational, intercul-

tural, media critical, CLIL) in History learning and teach-

ing.

the selection of interesting topics such as Columbus and

WWI.

Workpackage 7: Piloting and finalizing module and guide

for initial teacher training

Evaluation questionnaires on the courses and module guide

for initial teacher education were received from all five part-

ners involved in the project. The evaluation instruments pro-

vided feedback on the views of the tutors directing the trai-

ning for this module, and the students who were studying the

module.

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and in nearly all

cells, instructors either fully or mainly agreed with the positive

descriptors used in the analysis instrument.

Feedback suggested that the module guide provided a very

thorough and helpful guide to student teacher participants

who have been involved in piloting the EHISTO resources

and activities. The materials do focus effectively on the

stated aims of the project, and the feedback from student

teachers who have explored and piloted the resources and

activities have responded very positively to the EHISTO ma-

terials. One small reservation which has been addressed

since the feedback has been reported to the team writing the

ITT module guide is the need to make it explicit that if there

is not enough curriculum time to work through all 14 of the

units, some flexibility will be required in providing student

teachers with a ‘cut-down’ version of the course. The course

module is formulated in such a way that it should be easy for

ITT instructors to do this.

Workpackage 8: Piloting and finalizing teaching material

and teacher manuals

On the basis of experiences from WP 4 (developing module

and module guide for initial teacher training) and WP 5

(developing a course and handbook for in-service teacher

training), the work with the development of the handbook and

in-service teacher training has been a process of transfor-

mation and communication. Testing and evaluating the mate-

rial highlighted how in-service teachers appreciate the possi-

bility to have easy access material.

The handbook developed in WP 5 made good use of previ-

ous work in the project and we found the design of the first

training day to be quite useful in practice. However, with

more online material available, the focus of EHISTO on fur-

ther history education and bearing in mind the competences

of teacher educators’ technical competence we redesigned

the handbook’s suggestions for the second day. Primarily

online discussions led to a common decision to redesign the

handbook in ways that the material already produced in

EHISTO will be in focus in manageable ways. Thus a new

version of the handbook holds many links to further online

reading for in-service teacher educators who are interested.

Using the handbook in practice highlights how the handbook

needs to be very flexible. The new version of the handbook

makes this possible by suggesting complete sessions that

can be used separately. A test in Sweden of using the mate-

rial within the framework of a joint venture with scholars from

Stanford University highlights how the in-service teacher

handbook can be used in this more limited way. Evaluations

from testing the material make evident how in-service teach-

ers were “very satisfied” with the education. The interest from

teachers to participate has been high with for instance more

than a hundred teachers in Sweden participating on two oc-

EHISTO Newsletter #3

Results of Work Packages (WP) 6, 7 and 8

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Announcement:

Final meeting and presentation of the results Miriam Hannig (University of Augsburg)

The coordinators and all partners of the EHISTO-project are really pleased to announce that the final EHISTO-conference is

linked to the annual conference of the International Society For History Didactics (ISHD)! With the topic “history and edutain-

ment” – a combination of education and entertainment – great synergies can be exploited. The EHISTO-final conference will

host three panels, which will contribute lectures with the thematic focus of:

1) Popular history magazines: information, entertainment and persuasion (Chair: Jutta Schumann)

Susanne Popp:

Popular history magazines between transmission of knowledge and entertainment – Some theoretical remark

Thomas Nygren, Monika Vinterek, Terry Haydn:

Starting a War? – Using Popular History Magazines to Problematize the Start of World War One in Schools in Sweden and the UK

Miriam Hannig:

Popular history magazines between information and entertainment – A qualitative study on the expectations of con-sumers

2) Popular history magazines: information, entertainment and persuasion (Chair: Meng Zhongjie)

Terry Haydn:

A case study of the use of popular history magazines in history teaching in England

Shen Chenchen:

Popular history magazines in the PR China – a growing market

Monika Vinterek:

The use of powerful men, naked women to edutain: Popular history magazines in Sweden

Katja Gorbahn:

Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators – Second World War and Nazism in Danish and German History Magazines

3) Popular history magazines: information, entertainment and persuasion (Chair: Terry Haydn)

Antonio Miguel Seoane Pardo:

Game-based learning experiences within a History CLIL classroom: a case study

Marianne Sjöland:

The Use of History in Popular History Magazines

Claudius Springkart:

Popular History Magazines in Germany. A useful tool for history teaching?

All three panels will present research results directly out of the EHISTO-project.

Within the most important international conference in the field of history didactics, the EHISTO-consortium is proud to present

their outcomes and to make EHISTO even more internationally well-known. Furthermore, a final publication will include the

results of the European EHISTO-project to reach sustainability and to provide connecting factors for further projects.

The EHISTO-final conference will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, from 9th

to 11th

of September 2014.

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Chencheng Shen (Consultant of the EHISTO project; Univer-

sity of Augsburg/East China Normal University Shanghai)

The Program of EHISTO is again positively echoed in China.

Preliminary introductions of EHISTO, by Prof. Dr. Zhongjie

Meng, on the first National Conference of Public History

(November, 2013) and several forums received encouraging

feedbacks among scholars and public History mediators. The

project, especially its aim as bridging the gap between public

History and History education in schools, is increasingly no-

ticed by historians. No longer satisfied with being a spectator

aside, Chinese scholars are looking forward to achieving

substantive cooperation with EHISTO partners as well as

disseminating their innovative achievements in China.

On the third meeting of EHISTO in Salamanca, May 2014,

Chencheng Shen, a PhD student from University of Augs-

burg, made a presentation focusing on varieties of History

magazines in China. On the foundation of a synchronous &

quantitative comparison between the amounts of followers of

each History magazine on the mainstream social network

(www.weibo.com) in China, the overall popularity of History

magazines in Chinese society could be approximately revea-

led.

Although the three most popular History magazines, Eye on

History (760,000 followers), National Humanity History

(300,000 followers) as well as Yanhuang Chunqiu (170,000

followers) all enjoy a sizeable scale of faithful readers, their

respective organizational background, self-definition and

strategies on content & form are diversified.

Eye on History, as the first

magazine consciously defi-

ned itself as a “popular His-

tory magazine” and one part

of Chinese “public History”,

has to carve out its own

way under economic pres-

sure and political interfe-

rence, while National Hu-

manity History, as an up-

rising magazine, supported

by People’s Daily Group,

one of the major media gi-

ants in China, obviously

enjoys some superiority in

market competition.

The most unique phenomenon might be that Yanhuang

Chunqiu, an unadorned academic journal, surprisingly won

considerable popularity among readers, partly because of its

professionalism. Fundamentally, it is the progressive mar-

ketization of Chinese media system that shaped the booming

market and unbalanced configuration of popular History ma-

gazines in today’s China.

Unsurprisingly, History magazines are - to a large extent -

“occasionally” used in History teaching without conscious

didactic standards in China, according to preliminary inter-

views to teachers. Therefore, teaching manuals, modules for

initial teacher training and guides for in-service teacher deve-

loped by EHISTO could be salutary reference for Chinese

History didactics. As the first step of further cooperation,

hopefully, a series of articles will be published in academic

journals on History didactics in order to introduce the project

of EHISTO systematically into China.

EHISTO Newsletter #3

Further Echoes of EHISTO in China

The first National Conference of Public History in China

Eye on History

National Humanity History

Yanhuang Chunqiu

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EHISTO Newsletter #3

EHISTO partner: Dalarna University, Sweden

Thomas Nygren (HUMlab, Umeå University)

At Dalarna University, in the scenic center of Sweden, tradition and innovation in

pedagogical development work in unison. Although many of our students take our

campus-based courses, over 50 percent of all students are registered in web-

based distance learning courses, for which Dalarna University is nationally recog-

nized as a pioneer.

Accessible and open on a 24-hour basis, these web-based courses - our virtual

campus - offer open lectures, seminars, and lessons in which participants can

interact with one another using pictures, sound and text. These are just some of

the features of what is termed “Next Generation Learning”, and our goal is to be a

leader in this innovative pedagogical field.

A prominent research profile at Dalarna University linked to EHISTO is the profile

labeled Education and Learning. Head of the research team is Monika Vinterek

which today brings together some 40 researchers and 25 doctoral students. The

profile is multidisciplinary and involves research into Education in various organi-

zational forms. The research looks at Education as a present-time and historical

vocation, with teaching, learning, mentoring, and caring as central focuses of

study.

Head of Research:

Monika Vinterek

Professor of Pedagogy

Email: mvn@du.se

Telephone: 023-77 82 85

Take part in EHISTO The EHISTO-project aims to

create an ever growing net-

work of institutions and indi-

viduals interested in EHISTO

to be constantly developed

during the whole EHISTO-

project. Being involved in the

EHISTO-network means to

be timely updated about re-

search processes.

For joining the EHISTO-

network please fill in the

online forms on

www.european-

crossroads.de/

bepartoftheproject/

or just write an e-mail to

info@european-

crossroads.eu

We would be very glad to

get in contact with you!

EHISTO network The EHISTO-project includes,

besides the University of Augs-

burg as coordinator, five Euro-

pean research centres, which are

all experienced in multiperspec-

tival and media-critical approa-

ches to history education. The

project also involves a number of

European secondary schools,

several associated partners, and

three internationally renowned

consultants. All these different

institutions and partners will be

working together in order to

achieve the project aims.

EHISTO-partner - Researchers in Education and Learning at Dalarna University

Dalarna University, Sweden

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EHISTO Newsletter #3

EHISTO partner: University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom

Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia)

The University of East Anglia is an internationally re-

nowned university based in Norwich that provides top

quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over

14000 students. UEA is ranked in the top 20 UK institu-

tions (Guardian University Guide 2012) and is consist-

ently in the top ten English mainstream universities for

student satisfaction. UEA is a leading member of the

Norwich Research Park, the fourth greatest concentra-

tion of ‘most highly cited researchers’ in the UK, after

London, Oxford and Cambridge. Nearly 90 per cent of

UEA’s research was rated of international excellence in

the latest (2008) Research Assessment Exercise.

The School of Education and Lifelong Learning (EDU) is one of UK’s premier centres for teaching and research in professional

education and training. In the 2011 Good University Guide EDU was rated 2nd out of 75 institutions in the country for Educa-

tion. Within the School, the Centre for Applied Research (CARE) in Education has in international reputation for innovative and

high quality research in the field of education, and for many years the school has had particular expertise in the field of ICT and

education.

As a department, we have found our involvement in the EHISTO-project interesting and enjoyable. A real high point was our

involvement in the second EHISTO seminar in Lodz. It was interesting to get the chance to talk to teachers from other coun-

tries about how they approach these ‘European Crossroads’ type topics, and in England, there has been enormous interest

and controversy over the ways in which the outbreak of World War One should be taught in schools, and the EHISTO-project

has provided very useful resources for this topic. Our pupils were particularly interested in the different ways in which this is

approached in other European countries.

We have used some of the materials on the EHISTO website with our pupils, and we plan to integrate a teaching unit based

on the EHISTO-project in our schemes of work next year. The other point

worth noting is that the project has had an influence on the extent to which

we make use of popular history magazines as a teaching resource, and the

ways in which we use them. It is also drawn attention to some of the gaps

and deficits in our pupils’ critical and information literacy. We all believe that

this should be an important part of a historical education for pupils growing

up in the twenty first century.

Contact:

University of East Anglia

Prof. Dr. Terry Haydn

Earlham Road

NR4 7TJ Norwich

United Kingdom

Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk

University of East Anglia

EHISTO partner - Team with pupils

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EHISTO Newsletter #3

EHISTO-partner school: Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 14 im. Roberta Schu-mana w Łodzi, Poland

Joanna Szczecińska (University of Social Sciences,)

The school runs

different classes

with extended

curricula, includ-

ing a journalist

class, a lan-

guage class,

and a sports

class. The school facil-

ities include 1 computer lab in the school, a multimedia room, an interactive board, 6 multimedia sets, a gym, a room with mirrors for practicing dancing and aerobics, a room with table tennis tables, and a fitness room.

The school offers:

- School European Club - School Caritas Club - Physics and Astronomy Club - Chemistry Club - Arts Club "Art Treasure Vault-Creating Like Real Artists" - Singing Group - Reading and Media Club - English Language Club - Extracurricular classes for students with dyslexia.

There are many events organised by the school. The most important ones are: Educational Mini-Fair, School Tolerance Days, A School Day of European Projects, Physical Educa-tion Day, A School Family Day, and A Safe Internet Day.

Every year, the first class students participate in integration trips with the school counsellor, a psychologist and form teachers.

The school has the following certificates: 1. "Szkoła z klasą" Certificate 2. A certificate for a student-friendly school "Super Szkoła" 3. In a network of schools promoting healthy lifestyle 4. Career Leaders Academy 5. "Leader of School Career Guidance" Certificate 6. "Entrepreneurial School" Certificate 7. "Active participant of Ecologically-Friendly Programmes" 8. "Innovational School" Certificate 9. "Modern School" Certificate.

Projects under implementation:

e- Akademia Przyszłości - a project shaping key com-petences during the teaching of most subjects in school.

Comenius- "Handicrafts in Europe"- a project in which 5 schools from Poland, Romania, Italy, Portugal, and Turkey cooperate. The aim of the project is to per-form tasks enabling students and teachers to discover their cultural identity, to learn the history of their region and its traditional handicrafts.

Incubator of Youth Civic Initiatives - the aim of the

project is to develop social and civic activity of junior

high school students by performing a series of tasks the

purpose of which is to form their abilities to manage

social projects on their own, in this way shaping social

competences and responsibility for their own living envi-

ronment, both within the school and outside it.

Website: www.gim14.edu.lodz.pl Email: czternastka@gim14lodz.nstrefa.pl

EHISTO partner school in Lodz, Poland

EHISTO-partner school: IES Campo Charro, Spain

Valentina Zangrando (University of Salamanca)

The IES

“Campo

Charro” is a

Lower- and

Upper Se-

condary School

with 220 pupils.

It is allocated in

a rural country

in the middle of

the province of Salamanca. It is a few kilometres away from

the Portuguese border. Due to its relatively geographical

isolation, the school seeks for any opportunity to exchange

experiences and students through European projects, as a

challenge for their students, who remain usually constraint to

their own territory and rural activities.

The school has been particularly involved in the EHISTO

project through different actions and collaboration activities.

First, some teachers participated in the development of the

Spanish digital modules produced by the University of Sala-

manca, providing both learning approaches and content

suggestions for taking profit of history magazines in history

teaching. Besides, the school received and used many of

the digital modules produced during the project lifecycle,

testing and assessing different issues related to their

teaching and learning possibilities and offering suggestions

for their improvement in some cases. The use of English

versions of some modules has been especially fruitful, since

the school has been recently selected as a bilingual centre.

Therefore, any experience related to CLIL and learning from

different perspectives, particularly in history teaching, is ex-

tremely motivating both for teachers and students. To this

respect, the school will present the results of a CLIL experi-

ence with game-based learning approaches in the final con-

ference to be held in Wroclaw next September.

IES „Campo Charro“

Plaza Miguel de Unamuno s/n

37200 La Fuente de San Esteban (Salamanca)

Spain

Website: http://iescampocharro.centros.educa.jcyl.es/sitio/

Antonio Miguel Seoane Pardo (IES Campo Charro), Spain

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Contact

Coordinator:

Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp

Miriam Hannig

Department of History Didactics

University of Augsburg

Universitätsstraße 10

86159 Augsburg

Germany

E-mail:

info@european-crossroads.eu

September 2014

Conference: EERA (European Educational Research Associati-

on) Conference, 2nd-5th September 2014, Porto/Portugal [LINK]

Conference: History and Edutainment, Conference of the Interna-

tional Society of History Education, 8th -10th September 2014,

Wroclaw/Poland [LINK]

Conference: Die Zukunft freier Bildungsmaterialien - OER-

Konferenz 2014, 12th-13th September 2014, Berlin/Germany [LINK]

Conference: HEIRNET (HISTORY EDUCATORS INTERNATIONAL

RESEARCH NETWORK) Conference, 15th-17th September 2014,

Lljubljana/Slovenia [LINK]

Conference: BERA (British Educational Research Conference)

Conference, 23rd-25th September 2014, London/Great Britain [LINK]

Conference: 50th Convention of German Historians (German

Historiker Tag 2014), “Winners and losers”, 23th-26th September

2014, Göttingen/Germany [LINK]

October 2014

Conference: NECE – Networking European Citizenship Educati-

on – Conference “1914-2014: Lessons from History? Citizenship

Education and Conflict Management”, 16th-18th October 2014,

Vienna/Austria [LINK]

November 2014

Conference: Media and Learning Conference 2014, 20h-21th No-

vember 2014, Brussel/Belgium [LINK]

NEWSLETTER EDITORS:

Susanne Friz, Susanne Popp, Miriam Hannig

GRAPHIC DESIGN:

Susanne Friz, Miriam Hannig

Project duration: 01/11/2012-31/10/2014

Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Popp

Coordination organisation: University of Augsburg

Projekt No.: 527752-LLP-1-2012-1-DE-COMENIUS-CMP

EHISTO Newsletter #3

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EHISTO related forthcoming events

EHISTO-team in Salamanca (Spain).