Contemporary didactic proposals for history teaching in Mexico have been concerned with the proximity between professional historical thought and its teaching, without modifying traditional historical narratives taught in schools. However …
Tag Archive for ‘Competencies (Kompetenzen)’
About Competences, or – instead – how about Education?
It seems to be a platitude: knowledge should not remain unexploited but, instead, be used for effective problem-solving in realistic situations. The discussions of the last few years about education and the development of competency models were characterized by this idea that – at first glance – appears reasonable.
Once again: Curricula
In a contribution recently published here, Holger Thünemann called for a more intensive discussion of curricula. The drafting of a new curriculum in Berlin/Brandenburg has sparked a lively debate. To my mind, it seems quite …
Studying history without linguistic competences and reading competence?
Students in Brandenburg will soon be able to start studying history without foreign language skills – according to the will of politicians. Presumably, this policy aims to increase the number of students …
Do curricula inspire historical thinking?
In recent years, German-speaking history didactics has once again focused on curricula and syllabuses. The Swiss “Lehrplan 21” project has demonstrated how controversial curricular issues remain to this day.
Thinking about Competency-oriented Learning. New Realism or ‘Old’ Pragmatics?
Over the last few years, different competency models have prevailed and are now competing against each other. However, competency orientation is not fundamentally questioned, even though it tends – …
Historical Thinking. Diagnose Learning Processes Instead of Assessing Performance
“If you wish to improve teaching and learning, you have to attend to teaching and learning.” With this statement, Bruce A. VanSledright suggests to leave the current fixation on large-scale assessment of historical thinking behind and to turn research attention to the description and diagnosis of individual learning processes.
Lehrplanentwicklung: Kill your darlings?
Abstract: Die Frage, was Kompetenzen für das historische Lernen sind, ist heute auch im deutschsprachigen Raum nicht nur theoretisch, sondern auch mit praktischen Beispielen zu beantworten. Eine Kompetenz in… Read More ›