Core features of the practice
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Organisation:
Institution name: Historical Archive of Macedonia
Institution type: State institution
Institution URL: http://gak.thess.sch.gr/
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Format:
Seminar, Workshop, Exhibition
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Target population:
Students, Educators in formal settings, General public/non-specialist audience
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Cost (per practice):
Free
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Setting:
Your institution
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Themes:
Remembrance education and/or history education, Citizenship/democracy education, Critical thinking
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Core activities:
Group work, Lecture, Slide presentation
Additional information about the practice
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Number of participants:
Up to 34
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Age of target population:
16-18
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Additional specifics:
Other:, na
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Topics and objectives:
Now running for 6 years, the practice is a cycle of thematic educational programmes offered by our organisation under the title of “KLEIO: Remembrance – History – Archives”. Our aim is to familiarise young people with archival sources and help them view these sources as documents of social and humanitarian studies based on selected thematic axes/projects. In particular: KLEIO 1- “A Thessaloniki of images and sounds” KLEIO 2- “A Thessaloniki of refugees”
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Materials used:
Written or other published material, Audiovisual material, Online material
Link to the material:
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Material produced:
Written material, Audiovisual material
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Sequence of activities - methodology:
The workshops (group of 20-25 pupils) involve the presentation of archival and bibliographic sources (in hard copy and digital format) gathered by the General State Archives – Historical Archive of Macedonia for these particular thematic units/projects. With the assistance of experienced historians / archivists and librarians, cross-curricular/interdisciplinary approaches are taken, using old postcards, newspapers, proclamations of the German occupation, albums, architectural designs, documents, etc.
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Length of activity:
Up to 5 hours
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Is the activity digital?:
No
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Language(s) in which activity can be delivered:
Greek
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Is specialist knowledge or professional training required?:
Yes If yes, which type?:
Remembrance, history, or museum education
Target population
Components of the practice
Accessibility and replicability
Qualitative Details
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Has this practice been evaluated?
Yes -
By whom?:
Instructor delivering the practice
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By what means?:
Qualitative written feedback
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Core content knowledge and transferable skills:
a critical understanding of history and historical sources; giving teachers the methodological tools to use history education to impart citizenship skills to their students
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Indicators of success:
repeat demand, interactive pedagogical method, highly adaptable / scaleable, addresses new topic or target population
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Educational coordinator contact details:
Name: Triantafyllia Kourtoumi
Email address: modarch@sch.gr
How many times?:
10
Scalability
The RETHINK project is concerned with bridging formal and informal education. This section explores the factors that make a practice adaptable.
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Key factors for successful implementation:
Subject expertise of presenter/instructor
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Main challenges to teachers adapting this practice for their students:
- the ability to make further educational use of archival material in the field of Social Sciences in order to develop the critical skills of pupils/students - strengthening of the learning/research environment with new original sources (in addition to text books) in order to determine additional causal relations between events (cross-curricular/interdisciplinary approach)
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Availability of guidance/training/replication materials (and in what language/format currently):
In Greek and available only by request to the Archive staff.
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Other comments or details:
The activities are suitable for groups of between 5-34 participants (not only 5-14 as indicated in question 9) The activities are suitable for ages 16-25 (not only 16-18 as indicated in question 10).