App-based Holocaust Education: The Mauthausen IWalk
Two approaches of the IWalk app framework in the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial site enable historical learning.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/10-2022-3/mauthausen-iwalk/
Dinosaur Ride
Before encountering formal history education in school, pupils begin to develop their own ideas and preconceptions of history. Many of these are shaped by representations of history in pop culture.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-29/learn-history-preconceptions/
Austrian Democracy
After Ibizagate and with a new government, once again we may ponder the Austrian idea of democracy, which is sometimes confused with harmony.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-26/austrian-democracy/
Austrian-Israeli Textbook Committee – A Report
Since 2017, the first ever joint Austrian-Israeli Textbook Committee has been working on the analysis of textbooks for history and political education as well as geography with regards to the presentation of both countries.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-20/austrian-israeli-textbook/
Who owns the “Trümmerfrauen”?
In 2018, a debate arose regarding a monument to the “Trümmerfrauen”, unveiled by the Austrian right-wing Vice-Chancellor H.C. Strache. The core question was whether they deserved a monument at all.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-17/trummerfrauen/
Last Exit Present? “Waldheim’s Waltz”
A documentation about the Waldheim affair in 1986 is an informative presentation of past culture of memory and history. It begs a question: Does it repeat patterns shown in the film?
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-4/waldheims-waltz/
Historical Identity and Migration
How important is history for migrant children’s identity? Preliminary quantitative research with over 400 students from Vienna, aged ten to fifteen, aims to find out.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-3/migration-historical-identity/
Late Awareness, Vigorous Remembrance: Austria Today
The Austrian memory of Nazi era and Holocaust remain connected to the "victim thesis". Austria may often seem unteachable, but several institutions are promoting a critical culture of remembrance.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-38/nazi-remembrance-austria-today/
History Textbooks – what and whom are they for?
In Austria, history classes provide competences, concepts, and topics, which should be persistently implemented in history textbooks in accordance with Ministry of Education. Historical thinking...
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-26/history-textbooks/
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/