Report: Follow-up seminar "Initial training for history teachers in thirteen member states of the Council of Europe" (Prague, 6-9 June 1999)

Description

The report discusses the outcomes of a seminar that addressed the extensive theme of initial training (IT) for history teachers, focusing on its relevance to the core aims of the Council of Europe, such as promoting tolerance, mutual understanding, and democracy. The seminar aimed to achieve four main objectives: recognizing and evaluating the results of a comparative study of IT for history teachers in thirteen participating countries, showcasing positive IT systems as models, developing new IT concepts for future training of European history teachers, and preparing essential materials for a future publication on IT. The report highlights the presentation of the comparative study's results, emphasizing its potential as a reform tool, and also presents findings from five focused comparative analyses linked to specific seminar working groups. These analyses revealed the diversity and commonalities in IT systems across countries, providing case studies that underscored unique and shared situations and offering recommendations for further discussion within the working groups.

Keywords

Council of Europe

history teaching

teacher training