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Valentina Kuryliw
Valentina Kuryliw speaking at her book launch in Toronto, 2018.

Valentina Kuryliw (July 22, 1945, Mannheim, now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a historian and educator specializing in the Ukrainian Holodomor genocide of 1932-1933. Now retired, she served as the Department Head of History and Social Sciences for the Toronto District School Board with over 35 years[1] of teaching experience, and a methodologist, collaborating with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto hiring young history, law and sociology teachers and evaluating their achievements. She taught the history of Ukraine at the Tsiopa Palijiw Ukrainian School Toronto where she was deputy director. From 2009, she is the chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress; from 2013, the Director of Education[2][3] of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Toronto office); from 2011, she is a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (Toronto). She is a permanent member of the Ontario History and Social Studies Teacher's Association (OHASSTA).

Biography

Kuryliw is the child of two Holodomor survivors. Kuryliw was born in a displaced persons relocation camp; in 1950 she and her family left for Canadaand landed at Pier 21 in Halifax where her family has a bronze brick.[4] She studied history at McGill University in Montreal. In the summer of 1993-2008 she worked as a methodologist at advanced training courses for history teachers in Lviv, Odesa, Lutsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Vasylkiv (Kyiv region); conducted seminars on the Holodomor of 1932-33 for history teachers in Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, and Kharkiv; In 2003 and 2005 she taught a course on methods of teaching history at the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University (Kyiv), and in 2006 at the H.S. Skvoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University. Since 2007 she has been holding master classes for history and social studies teachers in Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg and across Canada; commandeered introducing the Holodomor of 1932-33 in Ukraine as a topic into the education curriculum of Ontario and, working with others, into numerous provinces across Canada. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Ukrainain Canadian Research and Documentation Centre (Toronto), and since 2013 the Director of Education of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.[5] As a result of her early advocacy as a retired educator and later as the Director of Education of HREC, the "Holodomor is now being taught in at least 12 of 27 courses in the Ontario curriculum thanks to Kuryliw’s efforts over the past 3 decades."[6] In addition to education, she also takes an active part in other spheres of Ukrainian community life in Canada.

Writing

Kuryliw's book Holodomor in Ukraine, The Genocidal Famine 1932-1933: Learning Materials for Teachers and Students[7] is a comprehensive teaching resource.[8]

Awards

• Markian Ochrymowych Humanitarian Award (2019).[9]

• St. Volodymyr the Great Medal (2018).[10]

• Shevchenko Medal Award Education (2013).[11]

• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award (2013).[12]

• Excellence in Education award from the Ministry of Education in Ukraine

Bibliography

  • Методика викладання історії./Methods of teaching history. Торонто, 2003 and 2008.
  • Невідомий геноцид. Голодомор в Україні 1932–1933 років. Торонто, 2008.
  • Holodomor in Ukraine, the Genocidal Famine 1932–1933: Learning Materials for Teachers and Students. Toronto: CIUS Press, 2018.

References

  1. ^ "Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, K-12, Curriculum, Diversity Education". manitoba.ca. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  2. ^ "About HREC Education". HREC Education. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  3. ^ "About us". HREC. 2020-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. ^ Isajiw, Sophia. "Canada 54/150: Valentina Kuryliw". www.crrf-fcrr.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  5. ^ "Курилів Валентина Іванівна". ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE. April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  6. ^ Isajiw, Sophia (May 20, 2016). "Canada 54/150: Valentina Kuryliw". The Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Retrieved April 8, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Kuryliw, Valentina (2018). Holodomor in Ukraine, the Genocidal Famine 1932-1933: Learning Materials for Teachers and Students. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. ISBN 9781894865340.
  8. ^ "Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, K-12, Curriculum, Diversity Education". manitoba.ca. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  9. ^ "UCC Toronto - Markian Ochrymowych Humanitarian Award". ucctoronto.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  10. ^ "ST. VOLODYMYR THE GREAT MEDAL - Ukrainian World Congress | Світовий Конґрес Українців". 2020-09-17. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  11. ^ "Valentina Kuryliw". ucc.ca. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  12. ^ "UCC Presents Awards in Toronto". ucc.ca. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
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