Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
Unravelling the Threads of Time
The Teaching of History in Contemporary Russia
Tel Aviv University
14-16 December 1999
The Lester and Sally Entin
Faculty of Humanities
The Cummings Center
For Russian and
East European studies
School Of History
Tuesday, 14 December 1999
15:00
Opening Session
Chair Gabriel Gorodetsky, Director, Curiel Center, Tel Aviv University
Greetings
Shulamit Volkov, Head, School of History, Tel Aviv University
Keynote Lecture
Larry E. Holmes, University of South Alabama Reform in Motion: A Journey into Russia’s Past and
Present
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30
Session I
Educational Reform: the Challenge of Change
Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University Teaching History in Israel: The Challenge of a Changing Identity
Friedrich Kuebart, Ruhr University, Bochum
Educational Policy in Russia and the Reform of the School Curriculum
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 15 December 1999
9:00-11:00
Session II
History as a Subject of Policy: New Roles for Old Agencies
Chair Hannah Naveh, Tel Aviv University
Evgenii E. Viazemskii, Russian Federal Academy for Teacher Retraining
The Policy of the Ministry of Education in the Sphere of Historical Education, 1991-1999
James Muckle, University of Nottingham
Religious Education Today: The Legacy of Historical Attitudes to Russia and Orthodoxy
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:30
Session III
Modern Historiography as Reflected in School History
Chair Shimon Naveh, Director, Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
Igor N. Ionov, Institute of Universal History,Russian Academy of Sciences
Historiography and Historical Education in Contemporary Russia
Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv University
The New Hierarchy of Concepts in Russian History Textbooks
Iurii L.Troitsky,Russian State Humanities University
The History Textbook as a Discourse
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:30
Session IV
History and Collective Memory
Chair Aviad Kleinberg, Tel Aviv University
Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University Historical Discourse, Collective Memory andthe
Teaching of History: Theoretical Remarks
Nurit Schleifman, Tel Aviv University
Local Museums and Their Role in Shaping Collective Memory
Pinchas Agmon, Tel Aviv University
The Holocaust and Its Relevance for the Teaching of Russian History: Representation in Textbooks and the Problem
of Teacher Training
Thursday, 16 December 1999
9:00-11:00
Session V
Recreating the Past
Chair Larry E. Holmes, University of South Alabama
Ben Eklof, Indiana University
The Fate of Imperial Russia and the Treatment of ’Heroes’ and ’Villains’ in Post-Soviet Russian Textbooks
Isabelle de Keghel, Free University, Berlin
The Construction of Imperial Tradition in Current Russian Textbooks: A Case Study
Alexander P. Shevyrev, Moscow State University
A New Image of Old Russia: Historical Myth in Contemporary Russian Textbooks
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:30
Session VI
Schooling in a Changing Society: the Social Role of History Teaching
Chair Igal Halfin, Tel Aviv University
Liubov K. Ermolaeva, Herzen State Pedagogical University
First Encounter with History: A Concept for the Elementary School Textbook
Ruth Firer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
History Textbooks as Agents of Political Socialization: the Case of Israel
Sam Kaplan, Ben Gurion University
Historicizing the History Teacher: The Theory and Practice of Classroom Instruction
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:30
Session VII
Historia Magistra Vitae: Teacher Training and Retraining
Chair Yaacov Ro’i, Tel Aviv University
Yoshua Mathias, Tel Aviv University
The Challenge of Postmodern Culture for History Teachers and Their Education
Peter A. Baranov, University of Pedagogical Art, St. Petersburg
The New Generation of History Textbooks and Problems of Teacher Retraining
Valentina Iu. Smorgunova, Herzen State Pedagogical University
Historical Education in the Modern Russian Pedagogical University: A Shift in the Educational Paradigm
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