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On November 14–16, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Seminar for History Teachers and Methodists was held in Rivne, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. The event became a platform for discussing topical issues of reforming history education, as well as the issues of the Holocaust as an important component of national and world history.
The opening of the seminar was addressed by educators and scientists: Professor of the Department of Social Studies Education of the Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education Kostyantyn Bakhanov; Chief Specialist of the Directorate of School Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Raisa Yevtushenko; Director of the Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education Dr. Alla Cherniy; Director of “Tkuma” Institute Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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On October 7, the 14th All-Ukrainian methodological seminar for educators “New Ukrainian school: learning / knowledge about the Holodomor and other genocides. School historical education during the Russian-Ukrainian war” was held on the basis of the Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education organized by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine and HREC in Ukraine. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event as a speaker.
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At the end of September, Ukraine remembers one of the most terrible tragedies of its own history of the 20th century – the beginning of executions in Babyn Yar on September 29-30, 1941. The first victims of Nazi terror were Kyiv Jews. The total extermination of the Jews was the main goal of the planned and large-scale genocide, which the authorities of Nazi Germany purposefully prepared and implemented from the very beginning of the German-Soviet war. Babyn Yar is one of the most famous symbols of the Holocaust outside of Ukraine. At the same time, this place is part of the memory of the crimes of destruction of other groups of “enemies of the New Order”: the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma, clergy.
For the first time during the Nazi rule in Ukraine, such a large number of people – almost 34 thousand people – were killed in one place in just two days. In the next two years of occupation, Babyn Yar turned into a place of death for almost 100,000 people.
As part of events dedicated to commemorating the victims of Nazi terror, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies together with the Museum of Genocide “Territory of Memory” (Odesa) held a one-day seminar for more than 70 history teachers and teachers of extracurricular education on September 26, Odesa.
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On August 6-9, the regular summer studies for teachers of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies took place. Almost ten years ago, the head of educational programs of the "Tkuma" Institute, Iryna Piskaryova, and the director of the Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, conceived and implemented the idea of a unique project of an informal meeting of active teachers, lecturers, and scientists. Meetings not limited to the framework of traditional seminars, academic and practical conferences, but filled with communication and live and direct exchange of ideas, discussion of experience and planning of joint projects in the future. In the summer of 2016, the first Summer Studios took place in Lutsk and, as it turned out, became one of the most successful projects for the formation of an informal network of like-minded teachers.
Read more: “Summer studies” for teachers of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies
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On February 20, a “historical webinar” of “Tkuma” Institute and the “Orion” Publishing House was held on the topic “Historical distortions in racist propaganda - and the history of medieval Ukraine in the new history textbook for the 7th grade.”
The speakers of the educational online event were the historian, blogger of the YouTube channel “VOX VERITATIS”, winner of the Kyiv regional stage and graduate of the All-Ukrainian competition “Teacher of the Year-1998” in the nomination “History”, author of the textbook for the 7th grade “History of Ukraine” and other textbooks and history textbooks Vitaly Dribnytsia (Bila Tserkva) and Dr. Igor Shchupak.