‚Places of Remembrance’: spaces for historical and political literacy: A lesson report

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Purpose: The article shows the use of specific educational media in social studies in vocational schools to foster a differentiated historical and political literacy.Design/methodology/approach: Accordingly, the article examines a sequence of lessons taught by the author in a vocational classroom, fostering reflexive historical-political awareness of Germany’s post-war coping with the fascist constitution 1933-1945 and specifically of contemporary legal proceedings concerning the persecution and subsequent murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust.1Findings: Teaching techniques comprise explorative learning through guided city walks, document analysis and expert visits, in-class-discussions, the and individual student-teacher-conversations and, particularly, contact with exhibits employed as educational media, originating from an art exhibition in public space covering various unsettling steps of exclusion against Jewish citizens before 1942.These materials turn out to bridge the gap from ignorance to learning by the acquisition of knowledge, demonstrating the use of artistic visual representations as educational media in the social studies classroom, especially while addressing students with little prior knowledge and understanding. Research limitations/implications: As a lesson report, the article draws on classroom observations. Practical implications: The approach presented includes various implications for classroom application.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Social Science Education
Volume16
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)110-121
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 09.01.2018

Documents

DOI

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Stefan Hilser

Publications

  1. Critical Stances
  2. Knowledge transfer in age-diverse coworker dyads in China and Germany
  3. Unterrichtsdiagnostik als Voraussetzung für Unterrichtsentwicklung
  4. Arbeitskampf in diakonischen Einrichtungen?
  5. Transdisciplinary institutionalization in higher education
  6. Molecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubules
  7. A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge
  8. The impact of climate change on aquatic risk from agricultural pesticides in the US
  9. Migrationsbewusstsein empirisch
  10. Multi-level Governance, Multi-level Deficits: The Case of Drinking Water Management in Hungary
  11. From competition to facilitation
  12. Zur Bestandesentwicklung von Crassula helmsii in den Holmer Teichen (Lüneburger Heide)
  13. Investigations on the tensile deformation of pure Mg and Mg–15Gd alloy by in-situ X-ray synchrotron radiation and visco-plastic self-consistent modeling
  14. Leadership and Goal setting for Sustainable Innovation Projects in Large Businesses
  15. No evidence for local adaptation in an invasive alien plant
  16. The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time
  17. Der Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für ein EU-Omnibus-Paket zur Änderung von CSRD, CSDDD und Taxonomie-Verordnung
  18. Landscape Imaginaries and the Protection of Dynamic Nature at the Wadden Sea
  19. Das Dorf
  20. Carbon turnover in a crop rotation under free air CO 2 enrichment (FACE)
  21. Four Charges Against the WTO
  22. Brand mit Ansage
  23. Das Lernfeldkonzept als Forschungsanlass und Diskursthema in der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - Leuphana Notizen
  24. KOPRA- Kompetenzentwicklung im Praxisjahr
  25. Repatriate knowledge transfer
  26. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of a novel solid-state recycling process for aluminum alloy AA6063 chips via direct hot rolling
  27. Eine Frage von Genauigkeit?
  28. Cooperation in public good games. Calculated or confused?
  29. Polymorphic microsatellite loci in the endangered butterfly Lycaena helle (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
  30. Zur Krise des „poeta vates“ im Biedermeier.
  31. Inter- und transdisziplinäre Lehrforschung
  32. Frauen im Männerknast
  33. Mit den Simpsons über das Fernsehen nachdenken
  34. Impact of early childhood education settings on the systems thinking skills of preschool children through the lens of Bronfenbrenner's theory
  35. Smart or selfish - When smart guys finish nice
  36. Regulating Exceptions for Research and Exploratory Fishing in Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas