Schools Facing Public History

The public uses of history compete with school teaching from a position of strength, and therefore they must become part of school history curricula in order to give pupils the tools to critically evaluate them.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-16/schools-facing-public-history/

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Political Aberrations

When the politician Roman Haider of the party FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) caused the interruption of a lecture about political extremism in an Austrian school in spring 2017, a heated debate erupted over the place of politics in school education. The controversy raises important questions over the aims and principles of civic education.

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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-16/political-aberrations/

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