Are national days good examples of the wide-ranging influence of public history when it comes to building historical beliefs among the majority of the population?
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Teaching History in Order to Develop Critical Thinking?
Students do not simply develop an adequate understanding of “critical thinking” “in a natural way”, neither if they are taught history or another subject.
How Should The History of One’s Own Country Be Taught?
We can observe great differences in how teachers deal with the history of their own country (“Heimatkunde”) in the classroom. Some of them…
Competition: The Power of Contemporary Witnesses
In public debates the input of historians seems to play a subordinate role. Instead, the contemporary witnesses are more important, because they are those who can talk about “what it was really like”.
“Reenactment” – Dangerous Fun?
Reenactment – namely the restaging of historical events in the most authentic way possible – fascinates people! Organizers regularly announce record-breaking numbers of visitors.
Social Identity Through Public History
Public History promotes social identity. This is at the same time an opportunity, a danger and a challenge. In particular actors of Public History are required to take into consideration the needs for identification […]
Time for Reparation
On 19 December 2014, more than 100,000 Swiss voters submitted the so-called “Reparation Initiative”. The necessary signatures were collected within barely more than half a year. …
Der Einbürgerungstest. Geschichte als Eintrittskarte?
Welche Erzählungen über die Vergangenheit eine Gesellschaft bewahren will, zeigt sich bei den Tests zur Erlangung von Staatsbürgerschaft. Menschen, die sich für eine neue Staatsbürgerschaft bewerben, müssen in verschiedenen… Read More ›