From October 10-12, a seminar for teachers and educators from Poland and Germany took place in Krzyżowa, titled “Overcoming Hostility. How to Teach about the Experience of World War II in Poland and Germany?”
The goals of the seminar were:
- To deepen knowledge regarding issues related to the history of Polish-German relations (from 1939 to the present day).
- To highlight the differences and similarities in Polish and German remembrance of World War II, the Holocaust, and the post-war period.
- To present the experiences of academics and teachers involved in the work of the Joint Polish-German Textbook Commission.
- To present the opportunities offered by the use of the joint Polish-German history textbook “Europa. Nasza historia / Europe – Unsere Geschichte.”
- To present possibilities for utilizing large language models (LLMs) in educational work.
- To network participants and show them opportunities for cooperation with Polish organizations active in the field of historical and civic education.
A total of 60 participants from Poland and Germany took part in the seminar.
Organizers:
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Krzyżowa Foundation for European Understanding
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Centre for Historical and Cultural Research "Memory and Future" (Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”)
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Polish-German Textbook Commission
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Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute
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Collegium Polonicum of Adam Mickiewicz University
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The Pilecki Institute in Berlin
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Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin
Cooperation:
- Working Group of Teachers attached to the Polish-German Textbook Commission
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the project "Comprehensive service for the program commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and commemorating actions related to overcoming the consequences of the war in Europe, implemented in Krzyżowa."
The seminar was co-financed by the Polish-German Foundation for Cooperation.
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