Within the framework of the Council of Europe’s project titled “The Image of the Other in History Teaching”, the symposium on “Globalisation and Images of the Other: challenges and new perspectives for History teaching in Europe” was organised by the History Education Division of the Council of Europe and IRCICA on 30 November – 1st December 2008 at Yıldız Palace, İstanbul. With nearly one hundred participants, the meeting was conducted in three parallel sessions of working groups and round-tables. The themes of the round-tables, which heard country papers, were “Globalisation and the role of History Teaching in a new context” and “Pedagogical innovations and reforms strategies with a view to taking into account globalisation in history teaching”. The Plenary session dwelt upon the issue of “Training actors of history learning”. The book contains fourteen of the papers presented.
