Beyond Textbooks. Amerikanische Schulbucharbeit in Deutschland 1944–1952
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2021
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Bethge, Johanna
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Göttingen: V&R
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Demokratie zu »lernen« ist eine Herausforderung für Gesellschaften – früher wie heute. Johanna Bethge untersucht, welche Rolle das Schulbuch nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bei der Einübung demokratischer
Denk- und Verhaltensweisen im besetzten Deutschland innerhalb der Amerikanischen Besatzungszone und Westberlin spielte: Von amerikanischer Seite wurde insbesondere dem Geschichtsbuch große Bedeutung für die Demokratisierung beigemessen. Nicht nur das gedruckte Schulbuch, sondern insbesondere auch sein transnationaler
Entstehungsprozess kommen in diesem Band auf Basis teils unerschlossener Quellenbestände aus dem In- und Ausland zur Untersuchung. Dadurch gelingt es, ungewöhnliche Einblicke in die individuelle und kollektive Praxis der Schulbuchproduktion und -rezeption zu liefern und gängige Einschätzungen der Reeducation-Forschung zu widerlegen.
Democracy has always been a challenging topic for societies to teach and learn about, and that remains the case. Johanna Bethge explores the role played by textbooks in the practice of democratic thinking and behaviour after the Second World War in the American zone of occupied Germany, and West Berlin, where history books were seen as particularly significant by the American powers. This volume not only explores the printed textbook, but also the transnational process of production, in some instances using previously unexplored source material from Germany and abroad. This method provides unusual insights into the individual and collective practices of textbook production and reception and allows common assessments of re-education research to be refuted.
Democracy has always been a challenging topic for societies to teach and learn about, and that remains the case. Johanna Bethge explores the role played by textbooks in the practice of democratic thinking and behaviour after the Second World War in the American zone of occupied Germany, and West Berlin, where history books were seen as particularly significant by the American powers. This volume not only explores the printed textbook, but also the transnational process of production, in some instances using previously unexplored source material from Germany and abroad. This method provides unusual insights into the individual and collective practices of textbook production and reception and allows common assessments of re-education research to be refuted.
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