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"Tkuma" Institute has experience in organization and conduction of educational events for school and university students, school teachers. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional institutes of advanced teacher training, "Tkuma" Institute organized special system of seminars for improvement of teachers' skills.
"Tkuma" Institute has unique experience in creating textbooks. School History textbooks created by "Tkuma" Institute won All-Ukrainian State Contests and were released in hundreds of thousands of copies.
"Tkuma" Institute effectively cooperates with regional office of Junior Academy of Sciences. On the base of "Tkuma" Institute winter and summer sessions of JAS are conducted. During this events school students have an opportunity to work with the Holocaust museum holdings, consult the Institute and Museum research associates and meet famous Ukrainian and foreign scholars.
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On November 14, the Prestige Lyceum (Rivne) hosted a lesson on “Genocides, World Wars in History, and the Modern Russian-Ukrainian War.” The history lesson for students in grades 10-11 was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
During the 45 minutes of the lesson, high school students were not passive listeners but had the opportunity to participate in the discussion of current issues. Students expressed their own position and attitude to current events with interest, which they directly experienced from their own experience. The students themselves identified and drew parallels between modern events related to the Russian-Ukrainian war and the events of World War II. They spoke about the features of genocide as a phenomenon, about the need to condemn totalitarian regimes, about the Holocaust as an example of classic genocide and compared it with genocidal actions during modern wars.
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On November 1, the director of “Tkuma” Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, held an educational meeting with students and teaching staff of the Yuriy Lypa Ukrainian Heritage School in Toronto (Canada).
Thanks to the organizational support of the school principal, Ms. Oksana Sokolyk, an educational lesson was held dedicated to the modern Russian-Ukrainian war and its reflection in Ukrainian history textbooks. School students have long been using textbooks from the Ukrainian Educational Publishing Center "Orion" and historical atlases created with the participation of the leading Ukrainian cartographer Iryna Rudenko. These educational materials are used not only in Canada, but also in many Ukrainian schools in Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, the USA and other countries.
Read more: Educational meeting at the Yuriy Lypa Ukrainian Heritage School (Toronto, Canada)
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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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On October 3, the deputy director of “Tkuma” Institute, Dr. Yehor Vradii, and the director of the Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, met with students and teachers of the Lviv Polygraphic College of the Ukrainian Academy of Typography. The class was devoted to the tragedy of Babyny Yar, the Holocaust, and the modern genocide of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people. During the class, attention was also paid to the resistance to evil in the past and in our days – in particular, to the Ukrainian saviors of the Jews, the Righteous Among the Nations, the figure of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi. Unfortunately, the slogan “Never again” is completely devalued today, under the conditions of Russian aggression and the repetition of the policy of “appeasement of the aggressor” by certain political forces of the West.
Read more: Lessons on the Babyn Yar history for students of the Lviv Polygraphic College
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On September 27-28, the XXI I International Contest of creative works for schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and teachers “Lessons of war and Holocaust – lessons of tolerance”, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies was held online. The opening began with a moment of silence and commemoration of those who died because of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. And since the final of the Contest was held on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, the symbolic beginning of the event was a lecture-conversation by Dr. Igor Shchupak “Babyn Yar as a symbol of the Holocaust, a genocide that was not to be repeated, and the unlearned lessons of history”, during which the wars and genocides of the past were talked about through the prism of the tragedy of the present.
This year, the participants of the Finale presented a wide range of forms of performance of the Contest works: these are scientific studies on history and literature, and search works created on local history and family materials, drawings and multimedia works, methodical development of educational classes. The selected works will be published in the publications of “Tkuma” Institute.