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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315234003321

Titolo

Historicising 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 (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-1325-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Zeit - Sinn - Kultur ; 6

Disciplina

938.10923

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Psychological aspects - Scandinavia

World War, 1939-1945 - Study and teeaching - Scandinavia

World War, 1939-1945 - Historiography - Scandinavia

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.

»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.«  Malte Thießen, H-Soz-u-Kult, 05.06.2012    Besprochen in:    Zeitschrift für Geschlechterdidaktik, (2012), Katja Gorbahn