Description
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Global historical approaches plead for the overcoming of national historical traditions. This goes hand in hand with the demand to consciously reflect the long suppressed category of space in historical research. While there are signs of amending within the scientific landscape in this respect, a national narrative continues to dominate in history education. Not only at the curricular level, but also in the planning of teaching units and in teaching materials. The demand for de-centering historical learning, provides ideas on how to promote globally networked thinking in the classroom with a view at history education in Germany.
Table of Contents
Preamble ....................................................................................... 1
1. Introductory Remarks .......................................................... 3
2. Between Theory and Practice ............................................. 9
2.1. The Series of Teaching Materials
'Knowledge of Global Entanglements' ................................ 9
2.2. Thinking Space, Time and the Social Altogether ............... 15
3. Creating Knowledge of Global Entanglements .................. 25
3.1. Why Global Education in History Education? ................... 25
3.2. Boom of Global History ...................................................... 31
3.3. Historical Awareness of Space ........................................... 33
3.4. Alterity Experience in Historical Learning ......................... 36
4. Learning about Ourselves ................................................... 38
4.1. The National Tunnel Vision in History Education ............. 38
4.2. Consequences of a
Nostrocentric Historical Consciousness .................................................... 40
5. Impulses for the De-Centering of History Education ......... 45
5.1. Turning Away from Methodological Nationalism ............. 46
5.2. Overcoming Eurocentrism .................................................. 51
5.3. De-Centering the Curriculum .............................................. 55
5.4. A View from Latin America ............................................... 60
6. Concluding Remarks ........................................................... 70
Works Cited ................................................................................. 72
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Schwabe, NicoleNicole Schwabe studied history, social sciences and education for the teaching profession at the University of Bielefeld. As a research assistant, at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at the University of Bielefeld, she focuses her work on the transfer from Area Studies to Global Education and coordinates the CIAS teaching material series 'Knowledge of Global Entanglements'.
