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On January 21-22, the XVI All-Ukrainian Methodological Seminar for Educators “New Ukrainian School: Teaching/Knowledge about the Holodomor and Other Genocides” was held in Kyiv, organized by the Ukrainian Research and Educational Center for Holodomor Studies (HREC in Ukraine). This is the first in a series of seminars in 2025 under the general theme “How to Tell History to Ukrainian Children,” during which leading scientists, methodologists, authors of programs and textbooks will discuss the process of creating the content of future educational materials on the history of Ukraine and the world: what is the most important thing that should be presented in textbooks, who are the heroes and who are the criminals, how to talk about the tragic phenomena of wars and genocides without traumatizing the child and helping him become stronger, how to fit Ukrainian history into European and world history, but at the same time not to lose, but to express his own. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event.

During the seminar, important issues of historical methodology were highlighted by Ukrainian scientists: Director of the State Institution “Encyclopedic Publishing House”, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alla Kyrydon (on the concept of “global history”); Head of the Department of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences Ihor Hyrych (on the relevance of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's historical heritage). Among the speakers were also foreign educators: Executive Director of the European Association for Historical Education EuroClio Stephen Stegers; History teacher, EuroClio Ambassador Jacek Stanishevsky; Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, member of the Board of Directors of UJE Paul-Robert Magocsi.

An active discussion took place regarding the proposed content of the historical material for the SECOND CONCENTRATION – grades 7-9, because while implementing the education reform, it is necessary to “include” educational material from the history of the Ancient World to the present day in three years, within the course of a single Ukrainian-centric integrated history course. The seminar presented drafts of two options for the specified content. The authors of the first were Dr. Igor Shchupak and Dmytro Sekyrinsky. The second option was presented by Dr. Maryan Mudryi and Roman Pastushenko. During the active discussion, it was decided to finalize and try to synthesize both options into one, on which to continue joint work.

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