Vojtěch Ripka - HISTOLAB

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Research, History Education
Consulting on History Education Projects
Professional Development, History Education

Fields of expertise

Political History
Intellectual History
Social History
Histories of Authoritarian Regimes and Dictatorships
History of History Education
Remembrance / Collective Memory
Research on History Education
International Organisations Work on History Education
Europe
20th Century
21st Century

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About me

Researcher, team leader and fundraiser, history educator, educational tool developer, and evidence-based policy specialist. Between 2013 and 2021, I built a successful team of the Department of Education at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. With the best results in the institution's external evaluation, both in research and in grant funding (over one million EUR in the last eight years, more than all the other departments of the Institute combined), the team was awarded the silver Belma prize for the best European history education tool in 2022. I am currently working as an external expert on history teaching for the Council of Europe, The Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I teach historiography and social science research methods at the Anglo-American University.

Languages

English
Czech
Slovak
German

Country

Czech Republic

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Publications

Selected publications Editorial team. HistoryLab.cz – digital application for history (educational software). Accessible online: www.historylab.cz; part of the awarded Soudobé dějiny - badatelský dějepis” educational tool (silver medal of the Best European Learning Materials Awards in 2022) RIPKA, Vojtěch - SÝKOROVÁ, Pavla - MÜNICH, Jiří - CHVOJKA, Edita: Epistemic Cognition Triangulated: What Can We Learn about the Theory of Epistemic Beliefs in History from Reassessment of its Measurement?, in ZANAZANIAN, Paul - ELMERSJÖ, Henrik Åström (eds.): History teachers’ epistemic considerations (in print, Palgrave- Springer, 2024) BUREŠ, Miroslav – RIPKA, Vojtěch – BUREŠOVÁ, Karolina – FRAJTÁK, Karel – MAHA, Jiří – ČINÁTL, Kamil: An Analysis of the Experience of Using Innovative E-learning Support for Modern History Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Sustainability 14(6), (2022), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063631 RIPKA, Vojtěch - HOŘENÍ, Karina, ‘Anti- Communist Resistance in Didactical Perspective’, in Violent Resistance. From the Baltics to Central and South Eastern Europe 1945-1956., ed. by David Schriffl and Michael Gehler (Vienna: ÖAW, 2020), pp. 40–80 RIPKA, Vojtěch. Socialism Realised. In: Public History Weekly 5 (2017) 19, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1515/phw-2017-9294. Editorial team. Socialism Realised. Life in Communist Czechoslovakia 1948-1989 [educational application]. Prague: Institute For the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, 2016. Accessible online: https://www.socialismrealised.eu

Experience

2024- Council of Europe external expert on history education 2024- Expert on history education of the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences 2023 National Pedagogical Institute, History Education Specialist heading an evaluation unit of the History Plus Project. 2022- Anglo-American University, Adjunct Lecturer teaching Research Methods in Social Science and Humanities, Introduction to Historiography, and Modern European History II. 2008–5/2023 Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Senior researcher at the Department of Education The Head of the Department of Education (2014–2021; evaluated by an external research assessment as the leading Department of the Institute) The Head of the Department of Documentation (2009–2010; 2012–2014) The Head of the Department of Research of the Totalitarian Regimes (2010–2012) 2003–2008 Agora Central Europe (www.agora-ce.cz)- analyst and coordinator of public events 2002–2005 ISEA think-tank, policy analyst

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