First Human Rights Defender of Armenia: approaches of Armenian  authorities coincide with  Turkish- Azerbaijani genocidal policy  towards Armenian people

ArmInfo. A textbook on Armenian history of a new type is not an order from Azerbaijan, it is  the conviction and approaches of the current authorities of Armenia, which completely coincide with the Turkish-Azerbaijani genocidal policy towards the Armenian people. A similar opinion was expressed  by Larisa Alaverdyan, the first Human Rights Defender of Armenia, as part of a protest rally near the building of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, demanding the resignation of the head of the department.

She noted that human rights include not just any education, but also  the right to quality education. Ms.  Alaverdyan added that it is  necessary to fight to the end, and not be limited to street actions.  For example, she noted that it would be advisable to organize a  meeting with Minister Zhanna Andreasyan and her deputy, who oversees  the relevant areas, in order to discuss the existing problems face to  face. "There needs to be open discussions," she said.

The former Defender emphasized that history textbooks must be written  anew, for which there is an appropriate professional resource. "I  think we have to fight as hard as we can until we achieve our goals.   Even if I'm alone, I'll come again. If we can't light a fire, then we  can light a candle," she said.  Larisa Alaverdyan also called on  teachers who falsified voting results at polling stations not to  distort the history of Armenia.

Let us note that this is the second protest rally near the building  of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine demanding the  resignation of Zhanna Andreasyan. The participants of the action  reported that their next meeting will be held on February 14, but in  the meantime other measures will be taken, including informational  ones.

Let us recall that at the end of last year, the scientific community  of Armenia, after examining a new textbook on the history of Armenia  for grade 7, came to the conclusion that the latter does not meet the  necessary conditions for admission to the curriculum for secondary  schools. Referring to the results of the examination, historians  called on the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of  Armenia to remove these textbooks from the school curriculum.

The study noted that the textbook for grade 7 "History of Armenia",  compiled by Smbat Hovhannisyan, contains complex problems of a  conceptual, methodological, scientific, educational, pedagogical  nature, technical plan, etc.

"The inaccuracies of the historical time frames, dates contained in  the textbook, judgments based on hypothetical thinking, arbitrary  selection of extremely important visual materials, as well as  ignoring the psychological, age-related characteristics of  pedagogical approaches, the lack of a comprehensive examination of  the content lead to the conclusion that the textbook in this form is  not may be applicable in the educational process," the examination  says.

The full text of the examination can be found at the following link:   https://www.thecradle.am/news/event/single/22 .