NAŠA MISIJA
Čitanke zajedničke povijesti predstavljaju inovativnu zbirku povijesnih izvora o zemaljama jugoistočne Europe, a osmišljene su kako bi inspirirale učenike i osnažile učitelje povijesti dajući im uvid u različite perspektive. Naša misija je da učiteljima i učenicima damo alate za analizu i dijalog o nacionalnim povijesnim narativima, potičući kritičko razmišljanje ne samo o prošlosti, već i o sadašnjosti i budućnosti.
Naši materijali propitkuju iskrivljene narative, diskriminaciju i predrasude, doprinoseći tako izgradnji inkluzivnijih i demokratskijih društava.
od 13 zemalja jugoistočne Europe.
Obuhvaćaju razdoblje od Osmanskog Carstva do 2008. godine.
ČIME SE BAVIMO
Autori su bili vođeni idejom prikupljanja i predstavljanja povijesnih izvora, zajedno s njima pripadajućim perspektivama, umjesto pisanja cjelovite historiografske analize. Namjera je izvorima ilustrativne prirode potaknuti kritičko promišljanje, umjesto davanja gotovih, konačnih tumačenja.
Osim toga, knjige koriste komparativni okvir i oslanjaju se na multiperspektivni pristup povijesnom istraživanju.
Ove knjige bile su ključni projekt Centra za demokraciju i pomirenje u jugoistočnoj Europi (CDRSEE), nevladine organizacije sa sjedištem u Solunu, koja je bila posvećena izgradnji demokratskih i nenasilnih društava. Unatoč uspjehu, CDRSEE je prekinuo svoje aktivnosti 2019. godine zbog nedostatka financijskih sredstava. Zahvaljujući Europskom fondu za Balkan (EFB), knjige su ponovno dostupne javnosti. EFB prepoznaje njihovu vrijednost ne samo u obrazovanju iz povijesti, već i u poticanju dijaloga, kritičkog mišljenja i višedimenzionalnog pristupa obrazovanju u jugoistočnoj Europi.
Između 1998. i 2016. godine, povjesničari i nastavnici iz jugoistočne Europe surađivali su na izradi šest knjiga koje pokrivaju period od Osmanskog Carstva do 21. stoljeća. Prvih četiri knjige objavljene su na 11 jezika, dok su preostale dvije na četiri jezika. Odbor za nastavu povijesti CDRSEE-a, sastavljen od više od 100 povjesničara i 300 učitelja iz svih zemalja regije, pažljivo je birao izvore i sadržaj kako bi osigurao predstavljanje povijesnih događaja iz različitih perspektiva.
Ove knjige namijenjene su korištenju u nastavi, a nastale su u suradnji s povjesničarima i učiteljima iz svih dijelova Jugoistočne Europe: Albanije, Bosne i Hercegovine, Bugarske, Hrvatske, Cipra, Grčke, Kosova, Crne Gore, Rumunjskee, Sjeverne Makedonije, Slovenije, Srbije i Turske.
Ukupno 2 000 nastavnika sudjelovalo je u projektu, čime je više od 500 000 učenika došlo u doticaj s ovim obrazovnim materijalima. Čitanke su prevedene na 12 jezika, što ih je učinilo dostupnima širokoj publici u cijeloj regiji. Samo tijekom 2017. godine knjige su preuzete sa stranica CDRSEE-a 74 000 puta, što potvrđuje njihov značajan utjecaj i široku uporabu.
UČI I INSPIRIRAJ
IZABERITE KNJIGU
Osmansko Carstvo
Nacije i države u jugoistočnoj Evropi
Balkanski ratovi
Drugi svjetski rat
Hladni rat
Ratovi, podele, integracije
PRATITE NAS
Vjerujemo da je važno da povijest bude interaktivna i dostupna svima. Naš je cilj potaknuti razgovor s mlađim generacijama i pomoći im u prepoznavanju povijesnih zabluda, te promovirati nijansiranije razumijevanje prošlosti. Pozivamo vas da nas pratite na različitim platformama.
Odlučili smo predstaviti svoj rad na društvenim mrežama kako bismo došli do nove, digitalne publike.
SVJEDOČENJA
This is a long-term endeavor — it’s been going on for almost three decades. And the world has changed incredibly over these thirty years.
Three decades ago, we rarely used personal computers, and the internet was just beginning to emerge. What worries me is whether the things we thought about and wrote back then can be translated into the present moment — into what we now call social media, into new forms of expression. And I think my generation probably can’t do that anymore.
That’s why I would be truly glad if young people — all young people — took over this idea, this endeavor, transformed it, adapted it, but still expressed themselves through the foundations on which we built this project: respect for diversity, respect for the variety that exists in how people think, live, and envision the future.
So that is my greatest wish — for young people to come and carry this forward.
We were historians, we loved history, and we wanted societies to change for the better. We believed that history could be a means to change the world — and that’s what we wanted: to change the world. Even today, what is it, 30 years later? Even today, we believe this is a noble cause worth fighting for.
Unfortunately, since then… and based on the conclusions we reached back then, it seems that not much has changed. There are still problems in schools — with textbooks, with the way history is taught, with the discourse around history, which remains highly nationalistic. But above all, the fact that children don’t love history.
So, we must be doing something wrong. Maybe it’s time for all of us to join forces and change that.
This project, launched three decades ago, is just as necessary today as it was back then, because some things in our societies in Southeast Europe — and elsewhere in the world — have not changed. One of those things is that history education is still conducted according to an ethnocentric, nationalist principle. In other words, history teaching is often misused to present one’s own nation as wonderful, admirable, exceptional — always a victim, never an aggressor — while portraying all those around us as something less.
What is unique about this kind of multiperspective approach to history is that it gives us the opportunity to learn what others think about us. And others often have a much more realistic view of us than we have of ourselves.
I believe this project is important for several reasons. One is that, over the thirty years it has lasted, those of us who have worked on it have grown closer and created a kind of micro-community of historians from the region, which functions very well — not just professionally, but we have, of course, become friends over that time. And for me personally, that would be the most important part of the project.
But yes, the project is also important because of the impact it has had through its results. I think we’ve managed to connect many history teachers from across the region, and that these teachers now look at history differently. They’ve become aware of the need for comparison — not just interpreting their own national history, but comparing it with the histories of neighboring countries, in order to see which experiences are shared and which are different.
And finally, I believe — I hope — that this has had an impact on the students who are taught by these teachers. That might be a bit difficult to measure, but I truly hope this project has, in that way too, left a significant mark in all the countries involved.
We concluded the textbook with the period after the Cold War up until 2008, which means it covers the most sensitive topic of all the textbooks we’ve created — because the processes are not yet complete, because we still don’t know what will happen with the borders, because some wish for those borders to change. That they won’t remain as they are now. Because we don’t have enough sources, and because the traces are still very personal and sensitive.
And here, we must seek some kind of balance — a balance in open classroom discussion, but also a balance with politics, especially because new countries, young states, were formed during the very process of making these textbooks. These countries look at history from today’s perspective. And it’s always difficult to explain to them what the actual historical context is.
And I think this will be one of the biggest challenges, especially as we shift to modern, visual methods — one of the biggest problems we will have to face.
