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.

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?