On YouTube’s Wissen2go channel, a journalist explains history and politics to half a million followers. The Russian Revolution is in high range of popularity. Why are there so many viewers and what does this say about teaching history?
Tag Archive for ‘History Teaching (Geschichtsunterricht)’
“Whitewater Canoeists” or “Rule Applying Automats”?
The question in History Didactics isn’t always so much as what the students need to know but what a history teacher actually needs to know in order to be able to work successfully.
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.
Ottoman History and Peace Education
Humanity has been confronted with many problems. In order to solve these issues, peace education can help students to develop skills…
A Guarantee for Disciplinary Inclusive Education?
Togetherness and differentiation are key concepts in inclusive education. How can they be applied to history teaching, while considering at the same time the specifics of the subjects?
Wrong Tracks of Language-Sensitive History Teaching
If one trusts the increasing demand for places in which language-sensitive history teaching [Sprachsensibler Geschichtsunterricht] is addressed, then this manifests (1) the somewhat problematic reflexes of history did…
Monuments: Disputed, Transient, increasingly Utopian?
The ensuing issue of modern forms of monuments that are appropriate for the 21st century has seldom been addressed in history teaching. That must be questioned.
Pedagogías del Sur: Rethinking Research
Pedagogías del Sur: The discussion topics in the field of research in teaching history are the hierarchic historiography-teaching relation; the definition of the epistemology of historical…