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"Tkuma" Institute has experience in organization and conduction of educational events for school and university students, school teachers. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional institutes of advanced teacher training, "Tkuma" Institute organized special system of seminars for improvement of teachers' skills.
"Tkuma" Institute has unique experience in creating textbooks. School History textbooks created by "Tkuma" Institute won All-Ukrainian State Contests and were released in hundreds of thousands of copies.
"Tkuma" Institute effectively cooperates with regional office of Junior Academy of Sciences. On the base of "Tkuma" Institute winter and summer sessions of JAS are conducted. During this events school students have an opportunity to work with the Holocaust museum holdings, consult the Institute and Museum research associates and meet famous Ukrainian and foreign scholars.
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On December 12, the Tkuma Institute, together with the Odessa Academy of Continuing Education of the Odessa Regional Council, held a pedagogical seminar for history teachers of the city and region (combined live and online). The seminar discussed topical issues of teaching history within the framework of the “New Ukrainian School” reform, the introduction of an integrated Ukrainian-centric history course, and the study of history in centers.
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On November 14–16, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Seminar for History Teachers and Methodists was held in Rivne, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. The event became a platform for discussing topical issues of reforming history education, as well as the issues of the Holocaust as an important component of national and world history.
The opening of the seminar was addressed by educators and scientists: Professor of the Department of Social Studies Education of the Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education Kostyantyn Bakhanov; Chief Specialist of the Directorate of School Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Raisa Yevtushenko; Director of the Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education Dr. Alla Cherniy; Director of “Tkuma” Institute Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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On November 14, the Prestige Lyceum (Rivne) hosted a lesson on “Genocides, World Wars in History, and the Modern Russian-Ukrainian War.” The history lesson for students in grades 10-11 was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
During the 45 minutes of the lesson, high school students were not passive listeners but had the opportunity to participate in the discussion of current issues. Students expressed their own position and attitude to current events with interest, which they directly experienced from their own experience. The students themselves identified and drew parallels between modern events related to the Russian-Ukrainian war and the events of World War II. They spoke about the features of genocide as a phenomenon, about the need to condemn totalitarian regimes, about the Holocaust as an example of classic genocide and compared it with genocidal actions during modern wars.
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On November 1, the director of “Tkuma” Institute, Dr. Igor Shchupak, held an educational meeting with students and teaching staff of the Yuriy Lypa Ukrainian Heritage School in Toronto (Canada).
Thanks to the organizational support of the school principal, Ms. Oksana Sokolyk, an educational lesson was held dedicated to the modern Russian-Ukrainian war and its reflection in Ukrainian history textbooks. School students have long been using textbooks from the Ukrainian Educational Publishing Center "Orion" and historical atlases created with the participation of the leading Ukrainian cartographer Iryna Rudenko. These educational materials are used not only in Canada, but also in many Ukrainian schools in Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, the USA and other countries.
Read more: Educational meeting at the Yuriy Lypa Ukrainian Heritage School (Toronto, Canada)
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On October 7, the 14th All-Ukrainian methodological seminar for educators “New Ukrainian school: learning / knowledge about the Holodomor and other genocides. School historical education during the Russian-Ukrainian war” was held on the basis of the Lviv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education organized by the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine and HREC in Ukraine. Dr. Igor Shchupak was invited to participate in the event as a speaker.