The aim of the conference is to open a discussion and collect the first instance and the critical issues that arise by the institution of teaching « History and geography ». From the curricular, will focus attention on ways to promote specific skills and cross the epistemological assumptions consistent with the disciplines of geography and history and the New National Guidelines for the high schools of upper secondary school degree. Will also contain proposals of the Working Group for the Teaching of Geography and History, recently established at the Department of Geography, University of Padova.

Agenda (PDF)

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Venezia (Italy), April 15th – 17th, 2010

Dipartimento di Studi Storici – Università di Venezia
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, 2nd Floor
Dorsoduro 3484/D

Participants

• Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
• Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol (Austria)
• Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH – Innsbruck (Austria)
• Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres – Créteil (France)
• University of Augsburg (Germany)
• University of Siegen (Germany)
• Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (Italy)
• Społeczna Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania (Poland)

Working Plan:

April 15th 2010, Thursday*

• 09:30 – 10:00 – Opening and Welcome
• 10:00 – 13:00 –  Geography & History Curricula and School programmes in partners’ countries: Venice will provide  an overview of the subject and propose an outline of the 1st deliverable (Presenter: University of Venice)
• 13:00 – 14:30 –  Lunch
• 14:30 – 17:30 –  Agreeing on the topics: we will examine the topics proposed by partners and find an agreement (Presenter: University of Venice)

* We could use part of April 16th morning session to continue discussing these topics if necessary.

April 16th 2010, Friday

• 09:30 – 13:00 –  Developing the modules: we will try to achieve a methodology for developing learning objects (contents, documents, structure and integration of images, audio and video information). We will try to show a demo version of a learning object (structure and environment to place such objects) (Presenter: University of Salamanca)
• 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
• 14:30 – 17:30 – Collecting and organising contents: tasks description and work methodology (Work group)

April 17th 2010, Saturday

Researchers

• 9:30 – 12:30 – Who does what: we will decide who does what  in finalising the structure of each module (All partners)
• 13:00 – 14:30 –  Lunch

Steering Committee

• 9:30 – 10:00 – Approval of the Innsbruck meeting report. Introduction of the External Evaluator (Presenter: University of Salamanca)
• 10:00 – 11:00 – Proposal of manual for the workflow (Presenter: Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH)
• 11:00 – 12:00 – Financial Management (Presenter: University of Salamanca)
• 12:00 – 12:30 – Preparation of the next meeting. Any other business
• 13:00 – 14:30 –  Lunch

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Innsbruck (Austria), January 8th – 9th, 2010

Participants

• Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
• Pädagogische Hoschule Tirol (Austria)
• Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH – Innsbruck (Austria)
• Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres – Créteil (France)
• University of Augsburg (Germany)
• University of Siegen (Germany)
• Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (Italy)
• Społeczna Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania (Poland)

Working Plan:

January 8th 2010, Friday

• 09:00 – 10:30 Introduction Round (all the institutions present  their teams)
• 10:30 – 11:30 The whole Project Overview: timelines, objectives, workpackages, tasks, deliverables, etc. (Presenter: University of Salamanca)
• 11:30 – 12:00 Break
• 12:00 – 12:30 Internal and External Communication Strategies (Presenter: University of Salamanca)
• 12:30 – 13:00 External Evaluator (Proposals and discussion)
• 13:00 – 15:30 Lunch
• 15:30 – 18:00 Financial Management (Presenter: University of Salamanca)

January 9th 2010, Saturday

• 09:00 – 10:30 Draft of the Quality Management Plan – WP 9 (Presenter: Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH)
• 10:30 – 11:00 Break
• 11:00 – 12:30 Researching Methodology Plan – WP 3 (Presenter: Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)