Personal Details: Sandkühler, Thomas
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Thomas Sandkühler, Dr. phil. (*1962), Professor für Geschichtsdidaktik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er promovierte mit einer Studie über den Holocaust in Ostpolen und war wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Abteilung Geschichtswissenschaft der Universität Bielefeld. Von 1997 bis 1999 leitete er das deutsche Forschungsteam der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission: Schweiz – Zweiter Weltkrieg. Sandkühler unterrichtete langjährig die Fächer Deutsch und Geschichte an Realschulen und Gymnasien. Seit 2009 lehrt er an der Humboldt-Universität. Zu Sandkühlers Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören der Nationalsozialismus und dessen geschichtskulturelle Repräsentationen, die Geschichte der Geschichtsdidaktik und die Gedenkstättenpädagogik. Im September 2015 wurde er zum 1. Vorsitzenden der Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik e. V. gewählt.
Thomas Sandkühler (*1962) is a Professor for History Didactics at the Humboldt University Berlin. He received his PhD from the Bielefeld University with a dissertation about the Holocaust in Eastern Poland and served i. a. as an Assistant Professor at the Bielefeld history department. From 1997 to 1999 he directed the German research team of the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland – Second World War. Sandkühler had been teaching the subjects history and German literature at Secondary and High Schools before he was appointed Professor in 2009 by his current University. His fields of research comprise Nazi Germany and its representation in Public History, the history of History Didactics and the history pedagogy of Memorials. In September 2015 he was elected First Chairman of the Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik e. V., the Association of History Didactics in Germany.
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On the Decolonization of Public Memory
Zur Dekolonisation öffentlicher Erinnerung
In light of controversially led debates: Which contribution can and should Public History make to a decolonialization of history?
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Restitution and Historical Judgment
Restitution und historische Urteilskraft
Germany has started to give back colonial loot to its former owners. But are restitutions a suitable means for dealing with a burdened history?
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Historians and Politics. Quarrel Over a Current Resolution
Historiker*innen und Politik. Streit um eine aktuelle VHD-Resolution
A "VHD-Resolution" adopted by the Association of German Historians General Assembly “on current threats to democracy” attracted attention.
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Digital Past: ”Historical Desire” revisited
Digitale Vergangenheit: “Geschichtsbegehren” neu betrachtet
A few weeks ago, an interesting debate about digital games involving historical subjects took place during the “History Talk in the Super 7000.” According to historian Angela Schwarz, the average German gamer is 40 years old and almost half of all ...
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The Didactics of the History of Time
Zur Didaktik der Zeit-Geschichte
Leaps, travels, concepts, histories, and layers of time - the so-called Temporal Turn reminds us, at least, of the non-naturality of our everyday time practices. Which consequences result from that for history teaching and our research questions?