In Austria, history classes provide competences, concepts, and topics, which should be persistently implemented in history textbooks in accordance with Ministry of Education. Historical thinking…
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Political Aberrations
When the politician Roman Haider of the party FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) caused the interruption of a lecture about political extremism in an Austrian school in spring 2017, a heated debate erupted over the place of politics in school education. The controversy raises important questions over the aims and principles of civic education.
Highly Controversial: The House of History Austria
The House of History Austria will be opened in November 2018. It is a museum with a long history, characterised by disputes about the location, the content orientation and the fear of political influence.
Hitler: Personalisation in Historical Representation and No End
Who exactly acts in the past and in history? Is it solely the rulers or is Bert Brecht’s literary critique in his poem “Questions from a worker who reads” as necessary today as it was in 1935? It seems that in the classroom a reductive and a balanced …
Methodik, Schmuddelkind der Geschichtsdidaktik? Eine österreichische Perspektive
Abstract: Die Geschichtsdidaktik kämpft in Österreich nach wie vor um den durchgängig anerkannten Status einer Teildisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaft, wenn nicht sogar um den einer eigenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplin. Es gibt… Read More ›
Wer erschlägt hier wen? Historisch-politische Bildung
Abstract: Dass Geschichte und politische Bildung harmonischen Geschwistern gleichen, scheint in der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unwidersprochen. Unter BildungsexpertInnen an Schule und Universität wird diese Meinung aber keineswegs geteilt, ganz im… Read More ›