Teaching history in a multicultural society - challenges and models

Objective:

To be identified key historical events, which are difficult to taught and learned by students from different ethnic cultures

Tasks:

Overall: to assist history teaching in multicultural environment and to encourage knowledge and good practices exchange between Bulgaria and Norway.

Specific:

• Analysis of the challenges to teach history in multicultural environment;
• Development of teaching subjects that support mutual understanding;
• To support empathy and understanding in a society with constantly growing heterogeneity;
• To explore new teaching methods;
• To identify competencies needed for the students and skills necessary for the teachers;
• To identify partnership strategies with other history teaching experts;
• To develop communication skills of the students from different ethnic origin.

Expected outcome:

Special methodology and tools for history teaching in multicultural environment developed aimed at bettering mutual understanding, tolerant behavior and encouraging multicultural dialog and solidarity.

Participants:

• Center for research and analyses,
• Oslo and Akershus University college of applied sciences, 56 Secondary school “Konstantin Irechek”, Sofia, 8 Secondary school “Arseniy Konstentsev”, Blagoevgrad, Secondary school “Vasil Levski”, Isperih.

Activites:

• Defining the status quo and challenges of history teaching in Bulgaria depending on social and demographic context, cultural and behavioral differences through in-depth interviews of history teachers and discussions in different country regions;
• Knowledge and good practices exchange between Bulgarian and Norwegian experts.