Dabei begegnen sich in den Vorstellungen von mythischer Gemeinschaft heterogene Traditionen: Die Leitbilder eines guten, kollektiven Lebens ver binden sich mit totalitaren, volkischen und nationalen Hypostasen. So kann Gemeinschaft etwa als idealtypische Form direkter Demokratie angerufen werden oder aber einer plebiszitaren Ermachtigung eines autoritaren (Fuhrer )Staates durch die, Volksgemeinschaft' dienen. Nach wie vor berufen sich moderne Gesellschaften auf das Volk als eine, (transzendente) Einheit', um ihre Legitimitat zu begrunden. Daher ist es fur ein Denken des Politischen wichtig,...

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...

This book explores some of the ways in which history education and human rights education can be combined and interlinked in order to empower learners for participatory and inclusive democratic citizenship. It includes twelve articles offering different perspectives that cross the borders between the two fields of education, as well as between educational policy, theory, and practice. Crossing Borders investigates how links between history education and human rights education can be created in a variety of national contexts and educational arenas, which approaches and aspects of both fields...