Valentina Kuryliw information

Valentina Kuryliw (July 22, 1945, Mannheim city in 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. She is a methodologist, worked with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto training young history, law and sociology teachers and evaluating their achievements. She has also travelled extensively throughout Ukraine teaching teachers about human rights, critical thinking skills and the Holodomor in many of its regions since 1993; "Every year (since 1993) Valentina Kuryliw comes to Ukraine – a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, a methodological teacher, a history specialist from Toronto. She conducts courses in the summer in Lviv, Odesa, Ternopil, Lutsk, Khmelnytsky, Donetsk, Kharkiv and thus shows Ukrainian history teachers that teaching can be different. Ms. Valentina has made an invaluable contribution to the development of Ukrainian methodological thought."^[2] She taught the history of Ukraine at the Tsiopa Palijiw Ukrainian School Toronto where she was assistant director. From 2009, she is the chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee.^[3] of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress; from 2013, the Director of Education^[4][5] of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Toronto office);^[3] from 2009, she is a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre^[6] (Toronto). She is a permanent member of the Ontario History and Social Studies Teacher's Association (OHASSTA).