Today’s Facebook kids live in a global village and speak multiple languages. The tide of cosmopolitanism is running in their favour. Yet, the teaching…
Tag Archive for ‘Master Narratives (Meistererzählungen)’
Teaching of Troubled Pasts—Three Suggestions
If we examine most of troubled pasts presented in educational scenarios, two features clearly appear. Most of the historical events have a national character and most of them happend just recently.
Narratives of the European Union
The attractiveness of the European Union gave, partially, birth to a number of narratives about the nature of the EU, which became pronounced in the 1990s and flourished in the heyday of the EU enlargements.
The End of the Grand Narrative in Poland?
A Grand Narrative? Since a few months, Poland’s national history has been quite visible and palpable all over the country. This reminds me…
Big History: Can life go on without a meta-narrative?
There is something attractive about ‘Big History’, David Christian’s approach to teaching the past. If World History is understood as an attempt to know the past beyond national categories, Big History seeks to understand the past at time scales that stretch from the human to the cosmic…
“Die Schweizer”. Welches Geschichtsbild braucht die Willensnation?
Abstract: Der „Wille zur Geschichte“ ist gleichsam Elixier der Willensnation. Das war sicher auch ein Grund für das Schweizer Fernsehen, dem Publikum im November 2013 eine vierteilige Geschichtslektion zu… Read More ›
Scheinpluralismus. Oder: Wie ich mir einen Schulbuchbeitrag bastle
Abstract: Das Herzstück deutscher Bildungspolitik ist der Pluralismus. Für das Fach Geschichte gibt es deshalb nicht ein Schulbuch, sondern 41. Für das Jahr 2009 wurden 41 Geschichtsschulbücher ausgewiesen, die… Read More ›