In Austria, history classes provide competences, concepts, and topics, which should be persistently implemented in history textbooks in accordance with Ministry of Education. Historical thinking…
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“Europe – Our History”. A Textbook for Poland and Germany
Is it really possible to create one textbook in two language versions for history classes in two different countries? For more than a decade, a Polish-German team of experts…
Using Multiperspectivity to Break through Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism in history education refers to two things: 1. a curriculum especially paying attention to European history, and 2. (Western)…
Value Neutrality? Repression of a Crucial Question
For Western historiography and with it the descriptive parts of history textbooks have to be sine ira et studio nowadays. Value neutrality is a necessary prerequisite for history as a science.
Why We Still Need Textbook Commissions?
In general, textbook commissions reflect the needs of their times. In the past, they quite successfully served their purpose of mediating between politics, research, and teaching. They played a highly relevant role in the international dialogue
Hitler: Personalisation in Historical Representation and No End
Who exactly acts in the past and in history? Is it solely the rulers or is Bert Brecht’s literary critique in his poem “Questions from a worker who reads” as necessary today as it was in 1935? It seems that in the classroom a reductive and a balanced …
Die Lehnspyramide – ein Wiedergänger des Geschichtsunterrichts
Der 1998 verstorbene Mediävist Hartmut Boockmann hat 1992 in der GWU einen Topos der Mittelalterdarstellungen in den Schulbüchern dekonstruiert: die Lehnspyramide. Seine Kritik richtete sich gegen die zahlreichen bunten… Read More ›
Von den Mühen der Regionalisierung
Das Bildungswesen ist bekanntlich eine beliebte Spielwiese der Politik. “Bologna” und “G 8” lauten die Chiffren für die beiden jüngsten großen Reformvorhaben; selten, vielleicht überhaupt noch nie in der… Read More ›