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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315234003321

Titolo

Historicizing the Uses of the Past : Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness and Didactics of History Related to World War II / Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, Erik Thorstensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

2014, c2011

ISBN

9783839413258

3839413257

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Zeit - Sinn - Kultur

Disciplina

938.10923

Soggetti

Memory Culture

Historical Consciousness

History Didactics

World War II

Education

History of the 20th Century

History

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 CONTENTS    5 Introduction    7 Representations of Victims and Guilty in Public History. The Case of the Finnish Civil War in 1918    27 The Holocaust as History Culture in Finland    45 The Nazi Camps in the Norwegian Historical Culture    57 The Norwegian Fascist Monument at Stiklestad 1944-45    77 The Holocaust and Memory Culture: The Case of Sweden    91 Small and Moral Nations. Europe and the Emerging Politics of Memory    107 Processing Time - On the Manifestations and Activations of Historical Consciousness    129 German History Didactics: From Historical Consciousness to Historical Competencies - and Beyond?    145 Coping with Burdening History    165 Exhibiting the War. Approaches to World War II in Museums and Exhibitions    189 World War II at 24 Frames a Second - Scandinavian Examples    207



Historical Propaganda and New Popular Cultural Medial Expressions    227 The Culture of Memory in the "Grandchildren Generation" in Denmark    241 Strengthening Narrative Competence by Diversification of (Hi)stories    257 How to Examine the (Self-)Reflective Effects of History Teaching    281 Contributors    303

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field.The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking – being fundamental for any democratic political culture.

Besprochen in:Zeitschrift für Geschlechterdidaktik, (2012), Katja Gorbahn

»Die Stärke des Bandes liegt [...] darin, dass er differenzierte Einblicke in die skandinavischen Geschichtskulturen und darauf bezogenes geschichtsdidaktisches Handeln ermöglicht und gleichzeitig übergreifende Tendenzen erkennbar werden lässt.«

»Wegweisend ist in dem Band [...] das Operieren auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen kollektiver Erinnerungen oder, geschichtsdidaktisch gesprochen, die Multiperspektivität, die er eröffnet. Sie könnte Anstoß geben, zukünftig noch stärker auch unterhalb der nationalen Ebene auf regionale und kommunale Erinnerungsgemeinschaften, auf neue Medien, auf transnationale ebenso wie auf transregionale Netzwerke der Erinnerung zu blicken, in denen sich die Europäer ihre Geschichtsbilder malen.«