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Historiēs Episkepsis A new approach to History, its problems and methods
A new approach to History, its problems and methods
Historiēs Episkepsis
A new approach to History, its problems and methods
An educational project by the Departments of History and Archaeology
of the Schoolς of Philosophy
of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
and the University of Cyprus
offered to Teachers in Secondary Education
From 29 September until 11 November 2017 the Department of History and Archaeology of the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), offered for the fifth consecutive year (this time in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus) to teachers in Secondary Education (belonging to Branch ΠΕ02 Philologists) the educational project “Historiēs Episkepsis. A new approach to History, its problems and methods” (http://www.arch.uoa.gr/epimorfwtika-programmata/istor-hs-ep-skecis.html).
The Project (which was 63 class periods long) was offered pro bono by 27 faculty members of both Departments and earned the positive comments from the participants both for the high quality of the courses and for its relevance to the issues that teachers of Secondary Education face. The classes were attended simultaneously in Athens and Nicosia, either by viva voce teaching or through teleconference.
The Project «Ιστορίης Επίσκεψις» (“An Inquiry into History”) constitutes an intervention into the crucial question of teaching History at school. Educators from high-schools are exposed, through the use of visual aides and highly focused courses, to new fields of knowledge, the historicity of concepts, the methodology, current research trends, and new directions of History, in a parallel examination of Greek history with the history of other peoples, in a regional and global perspective.
Moreover, the Project contributes to: a) the invigoration of scholarly communication between the two levels of education, higher and secondary (700 educators have participated in the project thus far); b) the further opening both of the Department and of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in general to the scholarly community and the society in general, as well as to the development of common educational ground between Greece and Cyprus.
