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 …
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The Colosseum! What else left over from history education?
The reform of history education in Russia aimed at promoting the growth of interest in history, the formation of critical thinking, and the emergence of solid knowledge about the country’s history and world history. Much has already been achieved. Nevertheless, one cannot …
Politicizing AP U.S. History? (APUSH)
In February, Oklahoma state legislators considered a bill declaring an “emergency” in the U.S. history curriculum because of the revised Advanced Placement U.S. History course. An emergency! What was all this about?
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 …
Decoding Da Vinci? A Public History Affair
The Da Vinci Code was a work of fiction, but significant public interest in its claim to be drawing on a hidden history of Christianity forced agents of the Catholic Church, and scholars within the academy, to challenge the book’s historical and theological errors. …
War in Russian history is more than just a war
In a recent discussion with history teachers about the present challenges of teaching history at school, I found that they did not describe the main burden as the increasing administrative burden and the number of reports they were being …
Alle Jahre wieder. Lehrplanrevision in Berlin und Brandenburg
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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.