Stories - Transition Dialogue

Transnational lesson plans: The Economic Aspects of Transition Taught Through The Accidents of Birth Game

THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF TRANSITION TAUGHT THROUGH THE ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH GAME Examples from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, and Poland Authors: Vedrana Pribičević & Bistra Stoimenova Download PDF I. Overview This lesson plan uses storytelling and characterization to describe the economic and institutional landscape of communism/socialism and explains how three main pillars of transformation – stabilization, privatization, and liberalization – aimed to create modern market economies in post-communist countries in Europe. It uses the concept of

Transnational lesson plans: Public Memory, Dealing withe the Past, Competing Memories

PUBLIC MEMORY, DEALING WITH THE PAST, COMPETING MEMORIES Examples from Bulgaria, Lithuania and Poland Authors: Bistra Stoimenova, Alicja Pacewicz & Aiguste Starkutė Download PDF I. Overview The lesson focuses on issues related to public memory, dealing with the communist past, and competing memories in three countries: Bulgaria, Poland, and Lithuania. Throughout the lesson students will work with different types of sources that represent diverse perspectives and will use active methods of learning. II. Objectives Students

Transnational lesson plans: Crime and Punishment

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT? TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES Examples from Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania and Poland. Authors: Stanisław Zakroczymski, Aiguste Starkutė, Momchil Metodiev & Alicja Pacewicz Download PDF I. Overview This lesson offers insight into complex issues connected with transitional justice in post-communist countries. The pivotal questions which students consider include: How should we deal with the communist past and the people who were responsible for communist repressions and crimes? What approaches were adopted in our

Transnational lesson plans: The Role of Civil Society in Transition to Democracy

THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY Examples from Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine Authors: Alicja Pacewicz, Olena Pravylo, Leonie Sichtermann, Louisa Slavkova & Giedrė Tumosaitė Download PDF I. Overview The lesson plan outlines a working definition of civil society and its role in a healthy democracy. It focuses on three pillars: 1) civil society in times of a totalitarian regime, 2) civil society and its role during a period of change

National lesson plans: Bulgaria

BULGARIA: People and Monumants During Times of Transition Author: Bistra Stoimenova Download PDF I. Overview The focus of this lesson is the issues regarding the cultural heritage of the communist regime, such as monuments and other architectural sites, the variety of attitudes towards this during the transition period, and possible solutions to these issues. The students will be advised to use different types of historical sources, as well as a variety of perspectives on the

National lesson plans: Croatia

CROATIA: What is (Economic) Transition? – Economic Transition from The 1980s Onwards Authors: Vedran Ristić, Vedrana Pribičević & Caroline Hornstein Tomić Download PDF I. Overview This lesson focuses on tourism as a case study to teach students about the transition from a command to a free market economy. To analyse the effects of tourism on the economy and everyday life, it compares tourists’ experiences from before and after the transition period. II. Students’ age This

National lesson plans: Germany

GERMANY: Victims and Perpetrators in The Trials Against The Socalled Wall-shooters. How Can a Constitutional State Today Judge Past Injusties? Authors: Barbara Christophe & Veronika Ludwig Download PDF I. Overview The teaching unit consists of two double lessons and one single lesson. It is aimed at students of an advanced history course, who usually attend five lessons per week. In five steps they discuss, against the background of increasingly complex information, whether the former German

National lesson plans: Lithuania

LITHUANIA: The Transition Period in Lithuania: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges Authors: Giedrė Tumosaitė, Tomas Vaitkūnas & Vaidotas Steponavičius Download PDF I. Overview This lesson aims to help students identify problems related to the social, cultural, and economic aspects of the period of transition to democracy in Lithuania, critically using and analysing diverse information sources. The lesson is based on the new realities, experiences, and social roles that the transition period introduced, alongside the re-establishment

National lesson plans: Poland

POLAND: From Central to Local Governance – The Greatest Achievement of Polish Transformation? Author: Stanisław Zakroczymski Download PDF I. Overview The lesson describes the significant changes in the management of public affairs which took place in Poland in 1989, because of the transition from democratic centralism, in which the administration was hierarchical and entirely under the control of the party, to a country built on the rule of local governance. II. Students’ age 8th –

National lesson plans: Russia

RUSSIA: Political Whirlwinds of the 1990s Author: Andrey Suslov Download PDF I. Overview This class is focused on Russian political life in the 1990s, following the fall of the Soviet Union. Some of the problems are described in comparison to similar processes in Eastern Europe. Students are encouraged to engage with the lesson material by using interactive media such as Kahoot!1, working with documents and group discussions. II. Students’ age High-school students (9th – 11th

National lesson plans: Ukraine

UKRAINE Studying Ukrainian and European History Through Active Learning Author: Mykola Skyba Download PDF I. Overview The methodological approach to the lesson – active and problem-based learning. Tools and framework – a blended learning method (mostly ‘rotation model’) (see APPENDIX). The teacher provides research tasks for the students which include the topic from the typical program, like the one transition topic, and assist students to break into small groups of 5-9. The students should read

Article: Why Should Museums Workshop Memories of Postsocialist “Transitions”

By Andrei Zavadski In the late 1980s–1990s, radical political, economic, and cultural changes took place across the Soviet and Soviet-affiliated parts of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Following the collapse of state socialism, the newly postsocialist states began to transition towards democracy and implemented a series of neoliberal reforms. Often referred to as “postsocialist transitions,” this epoch was eventful, experientially diverse, and often rather intense. Even today, a quarter-century after it de facto ended, this