Es ist die Zeit des heraufziehenden und manifesten Kalten Krieges. In einer abgelegenen sächsischen Gemeinde beschliesst eine Gruppe sehr junger, kaum ausgebildeter und beruflich völlig unerfahrener “Neulehrer” mit Enthusiasmus, ihren Geschichtsunterricht gemeinschaftlich und systematisch zu verbessern. Sie sind Bekannte Adolf Henneckes, ihre S…[Read more]

The Paper discusses the chances for societal impact, which the Extracurricular History Education in archives, museums, and memorials might have. It refers to recent psychological findings on historical thinking and learning. It’s conclusions are cautiously optimistic.

English: Structuring concepts of (history) teaching methods

English: Inconclusiveness, culturality, perspectivity and ability to revise – Effective history lessons

Guter Geschichtsunterricht besteht heute nicht zuletzt in der Offenlegung und balancierten Beurteilung eigener und fremder Identitätskonstruktionen. Leitkulturell-dogmatische Assimilationsansätze sind nicht nur langfristig unwirksam, s…[Read more]

English: History education and the digital world. A perspective on specific opportunities and problems

English: History Culture (Geschichtskultur) and Culture of remembrance (Erinnerungskultur). Two conceptions of the one object

English: A new beginning or a re-start? History Education in East Germany 1945 – 1961

English: John Hatty’s Visible Learning and history didactics. Limits and Perspectives

English: Curricula and their target group – a sketch using the example of the eastern German states

English: The planned new Berlin National Monument for “Freedom and Unity”. Demands, history and a well-intentioned proposal

English: The didactics of history as “subject didactics”. Delimitations, appropriations, self-understanding

English: Memorials of the Revolution of 1848 as historical places of learning. An overview
This essay attempts two things: firstly, a consistent and unconventional theory of historical places of learning / monuments, and secondly, a systematic outline of the landscape of monuments dedicated to 1848/49 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

English: Historical Consciousness in the Soviet Zone and the GDR : Historical-didactic thinking and its intellectual field of reference (with special consideration of Soviet Pedagogy) ; Bibliography and Inventory 1946 – 1973

English: Austrian textbooks as sources of Public History research. The Dealing with the 1848 Revolution and the Magyar-Habsburg Conflict

Die “Vorbereitung zur WeltGeschichte für Kinder” des Göttinger Professors und “public intellectual” A. L. v. Schlözer (1735-1809) war ein ausgesprochen populäres Buch des späten 18. Jahrhunderts.
Unter dem Schlüsselbegriff “WeltGeschichte” präsentiert Schlözer ein neues Konzept historischer Unterweisung: Geschichte soll nicht als “Katalog zeitlos…[Read more]

This article presents an argument from a German background in a current American debate about new challenges in teacher education. Experience and theory both show how necessary Transnational History is as a foundation for contemporary teacher training. Three ways to proceed in Germany are presented here, with suggestions for other countries, too.