Grenzgänger / Transcending Boundaries

Aufsätze von Falk Pingel / Essays by Falk Pingel

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Book cover: Grenzgänger / Transcending Boundaries

Extent: 424 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Eckert. Die Schriftenreihe

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(June 2009)

ISBN: 9783899717112

6.22 x 9.49 inches

Price: $82.00

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Schulbuchforschung zwischen Forschung und Politik, Wissenschaft und padagogischer Praxis, Staaten und Kulturen.


This volume brings together essays from three decades. The first section addresses National Socialism, primarily from the perspective of the regime’s victims, a topic to which Falk Pingel has always been passionately dedicated from a socio-political, educational and historical point of view. The second field of research explored by the essays in this book is German post-war history in its political, economic and social dimensions. Here too, the author moves beyond a more traditional (re)construction of the past to examine the role of historical scholarship as related to contemporary history and history didactics. This naturally leads to the third section, which focuses on textbook research. Anyone addressing issues concerning the dissemination of historical knowledge will sooner or later be confronted with the key medium of the school textbook. Falk Pingel has methodologically consolidated and developed textbook research, repeatedly emphasising the political responsibilities of academia, and thus transcending boundaries between research and politics, academia and education practice, states and cultures. English and German text.

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