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.

English: On the German-speaking State of Research in the History of History Education

This paper provides a critical overview of the historical research of the German History Didactics. It is a statistical approach chosen to exhibit three major phases of the history of science projects. For these phases internal and external explanations are…[Read more]

English: Academic ambition in the political maelstrom. Walter Strauss 1898-1982

English: Moral elementary education instead of ethics lessons

Wie lässt sich das Lernpotential von schulischem Ethikunterricht kohärent erfassen, ohne diesen zu überfordern und zweckzuentfremden? Unproblematisch? Keineswegs, und zwar weder bei der Begründung des Fachs noch in seiner weiteren Ausformung, so argumentiert dieser Text aus dem Jah…[Read more]

English: What is ideology criticism?

English: Beyond the competency consensus

English: The beginning of demoscopic historical consciousness research in Germany. The research group “Socialist Historical Consciousness” at the Institute for Social Sciences at the ZK of the SED (Central Committee of the Communist Party in East Germany)

ENGLISH: Who’s the “last philosopher”? The Emergence of Historical Materialism from the Conflicts among the Radical Young Hegelians

The 1848 Revolution as a European event. State of Research and educational Consequences

So far, the GDR history education (Geschichtsdidaktik) has largely been understood as an established system or even perceived from the perspective of its “liquidation”. Almost exclusively text hermeneutic methods were used.
The present study uses alternative approaches in terms of content and methodology. It examines the roots and the beginning…[Read more]

A biographical article about the first translator of the New Testament into Sorbian Mikławuš Jakubica/Nikolaus Jacob

A biographical article about the Sorbian pastor and translator Paul Prätorius

A biographical article about the Sorbian pastor, translator and scientist Adam Gottlob Schirach

Kamenz in Sorbian. Essay on Kamenz, Lessing and the Sorbs