On 29 April, 2011 the meeting was held with the teachers and students of secondary
schools. The meeting was attended by the representatives of Tbilisi Classical Gymnasium,
Rustavi public school # 2, Tbilisi boarding school "Mtiebi", Marie Brosset Georgian-French
school-lyceum, private school "Binuli", Ilia Chavchavadze high school of Sagaredjo.
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Professor Pal Tamas, director of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Science,
Hungary, invited by the Institute of Cultural Studies, Tbilisi State University,
met the students of Tbilisi, Rustavi and Sagarejo. Professor hold the speech on
the topic "The image of the World you will live in". The speech was followed by
interesting discussion.
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Representatives of National Curriculum and Assessment Centre under the Ministry
of Education and Science held a meeting with students of IX, X, XI grades and teachers
of Tbilisi and Regions’ schools. Nodar Surguladze, Deputy Minister of Education
and Science, attended the meeting.
The meeting was aimed to popularize the new elective subject The World Culture.
At the end of the 2010-2011 academic year the piloting of the new elective subject
the World Culture will end in 12 Public and 2 Private schools of Tbilisi and regions
of Georgia. This subject will be implemented as an elective one on the X, XI and
XII grades in general education institutions. The students expressed their special
interest towards the new subject. They were actively involved in they discussion.
The meeting was followed by the lecture of professor Vladimer Vardosanidze on the
topic "Urban Lifestyle".
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On July 29, the conference of the teachers of the secondary educational institutions
of Georgia, dedicated to the problems of teaching of the new elective subject "World
Culture" was held. The conference was organized by the National Curriculum and Assessment
Center. The subject was piloted in 12 public and 2 private schools of Tbilisi and
various regions of Georgia. The conference hosted the teachers from the pilot schools
and those secondary educational institutions which have chosen the subject "World
Culture" for the academic year 2011-2012. The teachers were present from the secondary
schools of Tbilisi, Kakheti, Khvemo Khartli, Shida Khartli, Imereti, Guria, Adjara,
Racha-Lechkhumi, Svaneti, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Abkhazia, Samtskhe-Javakheti.
The conference was opened and the session was headed by the director of the National
Curriculum and Assessment Center Natia Jokhadze. The opening speech was followed
by the greeting of the vice-minister of Education and Science Irine Khurdadze. The
head of the working group "World Culture" at the National Curriculum and Assessment
Center (NCAC), professor Vladimer Vardosanidze, coordinator of the same group Eka
Tsirgvava, professors of the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue at Iv.Javakishvili
Tbilisi State University Nino Chikovani, Ketevan Kakitelashvili, Ivane Tsereteli,
Irakli Chkhaidze, and professor of Free University of Georgia Giorgi Nijaradze participated
in the conference. The lessons were modeled on different issues by the teachers
of the pilot schools. They shared the accumulated experience during the yearlong
working process. See the Photo gallery of the meeting at the website of the National Curriculum and Assessment Center (NCAC).
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In October 2011, the training for the teachers of the Secondary Education schools
of Georgia was held under the initiative of the National Curriculum Center at the
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. The teachers were representing the
schools which have chosen the new elective subject "World Culture".
The training concentrated on the issues of teaching methodology and various aspects
of the content. In the 25 training centers of Georgia the teachers of 550 public
and private schools were trained from the regions of Kakheti, Khvemo Khartli, Shida
Khartli, Imereti, Guria, Adjara, Racha-Lechkhumi, Svaneti, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Abkhazia,
Samtskhe-Javakheti and the capital – Tbilisi.
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On November 9, 2011 the Laboratory of Cultural Diversity (LCD) has resumed its activities.
Professor Malkhaz Makashvili, Dr. of Biological Sciences, was the first guest
of the Academic Year of 2011-2012. "The Role of the Environment in the Development
of Thinking" was the main topic of the discussion. The representatives of the different
secondary educational institutions of Tbilisi – teachers and pupils – participated
in the event. The video link to the public schools of Gori (#8, teacher Lela Kakashvili),
Zugdidi (#4 teacher Khatuna Daraselia), Telavi (#3, teacher Manana Jakheli), Sagarejo
(#4, teacher Ketevan Kvlividze) and Kutaisi (#24, teacher Jozephina Gugava) was
launched with the help of the IT department of Tbilisi State University. LCD hopes
that the video-conferences will be launched in the future with active participation
of the public schools of the regions.
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On November 24, 2011, the Laboratory of Cultural Diversity hosted Professor Giorgi
Nijaradze. "Cultural Universals" was the topic of discussion with the representatives
of Tbilisi and Rustavi secondary schools. Men as biological and social beings, arts,
religion and myth as cultural universals, perception of time in different cultures,
similarities and differences of cultures – these are some problems followed with
the active discussion from the auditorium. A great variety of questions were posed,
reflecting interest of pupils towards the themes offered by professor Nijaradze.
Some topics for the future meetings were agreed.
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On December 7, Professor Giorgi Lobjanidze was a guest of the Laboratory
of Cultural Diversity. Together with the pupils of Tbilisi secondary schools, students
of the school #3 of Telavi joined us via video link. The topic of the meeting was
"Culture shock", Giorgi Lobjanidze discussed it on the basis of his Iranian experience.
Besides the problems of culture shock, the students posed questions on the Iranian
culture, Georgian-Iranian relations, stereotypes and the ways of overcoming them,
etc. Two hours of interesting discussion were not enough to settle all issues.
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