Dr. Alden Craddock
Ukraine Project Director

In 1999, the partnership with the Al-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History, Civic Education and Social Studies "Nova Doba" began. This effort has included the sharing between U.S. and Polish educators of pedagogical techniques and training methods in civic education. The program focus has been on developing Project Citizen activities, curriculum development for teaching democracy in Ukraine and integrating civic education with other content areas.

The partnership has greatly evolved since its conception in 1999. The partnership began between the Mershon Center as part of the Transatlantic Civic Education Program. That project was a collaborative effort that assisted NOVA DOBA in developing civic education curriculum and teacher training programs.

Since then, the project has moved from the Ohio State University to Bowling Green State University (B.G.S.U.) and included the Alabama Center for Civic Education as important partner. The focus of the exchange activities continues to be curriculum development, teacher training but has added the goals of promoting Project Citizen and developing guides for integrating civic education in other content areas.

The 2004-05 exchange will focus on the conduct of a major research project on student learning ifor democracy, development of an online teacher education course for US and Ukrainian teachers, and conduct of Project Citizen activities in both countries.

Ukraine-Alabama-Ohio Activities