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The project ‘Hi-Story Telling. How do we integrate the history of local communities into the history of communism?’ was organised in partnership with the association “History from House to House” and the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. It consisted of a series of nationwide seminars and online activities for high school history and social studies teachers. It specifically targeted teachers outside Bucharest, in rural and other disadvantaged areas, to develop their reflective and critical thinking skills, provide examples of good practice, free teaching methods and work packages, and supplementary materials alined with the current curriculum.
The project included four components (online modules) developed by specialists in the history of Romanian communism from the academic field and by educators specialised in teaching methods and historical practice:
1. using local sources in history teaching and building a local identity;
2. use of new digital sources, artificial intelligence and media in teaching about 20th century history and communism;
3. how to develop critical thinking in students?
4. how to convey democratic values and mechanisms of a functioning democracy to students?
At the end of the course, the participating teachers were asked to develop a project to teach methods of integrating local history into national history, as well as to emphasise the promotion of critical thinking and democratic values among the students.
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