English

Fifteen years after the publication of the PISA study, the time is ripe for drawing conclusions and enquiring into the character and distinctive features of the subsequent debate on the didactics of history. Some German educationalists, teachers, and curriculum planners have displayed an alarming lack of knowledge about the theory of history. The past forty years of discourse on the theory of history have not had any impact on them.

Obscuring Terminology and Idler’s Vocabulary

Numerous texts on the didactics of history are permeated with stylish jargon that has nothing to do with the established terminology of the theory of history.

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Quelle: http://public-history-weekly.oldenbourg-verlag.de/3-2015-24/theory-of-history-knowledge-poor/