This article analyzes historical consciousness and disciplinary history as theoretical constructs in the global context of identity politics.
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The Anthropocene and the Need for a Crisis in Teaching
Abstract: Humanity’s ecological footprint has come to threaten the earth’s planetary system. Exponential population growth, energy consumption and mass production have led to critical tipping points that endanger central ecological… Read More ›
The Subject of/(in) History
When working on the core concepts of history didactics in an intercultural perspective, a comprehensive typology is needed.
Parallel Lives? History and its Didactics
History didactics can be distinguished into three different periods in the 20th century. Historical Consciousness as one of its elements has long before been focused on the consumer.
Digital Past: ”Historical Desire” revisited
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 …
Historical Consciousness, Fake News, and the Other
Seldom does a day go past since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States without reports of “alternative facts” and “fake news”. This presents both a problem and an opportunity for history educators.
The ‘Burden of History’ and Controversial Issues
Issue: Educational Content. In Greece we tend to have rather “passionate debates over the national past” than about history education as a whole.
In Search of Narrative Plausibility
How shall we articulate a concept of plausibility of historical narratives as a way to assess their adequacy? Jörn Rüsen offers a starting point with his definition of ‘Triftigkeit’.