Bodo von Borries (history teacher)
Bodo von Borries (born January 7, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German history teacher and historian.
He studied in Bonn and passed the first and second state exams as well as a doctorate in economic and social history in 1968/1972 . From 1976 to 2008 he was professor for educational science with special emphasis on didactics of history at the University of Hamburg . In 1994/1995 he was a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University (ZiF). From 1988–1997 he headed several large third-party funded projects (student and teacher surveys at home and abroad) for empirical research in the field of history didactics.
Due to the empirical results, he is skeptical about the feasibility of the official catalogs of objectives for history teaching . Young people learned differently than most history teachers assume. History lessons are also about the adoption of conventional interpretations, but about learning historical thinking with the aim of being able to judge objectively and judgmentally in a society that is constantly controversial about history. Therefore (especially with a view to the Beutelsbach consensus ) judgments that one considers to be correct, such as the classification of the GDR as a dictatorship, students should not be given in the classroom.
As a member he belongs to:
- Scientific committee of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research in Braunschweig
- Scientific advisory board for the German History Schoolchildren's Competition for the Federal President's Prize
Works (selection)
- Historical awareness in an intercultural comparison: two empirical pilot studies , Centaurus Pfaffenweiler 1992 ISBN 3-89085-913-5
- Youth and history: A European cultural comparison from a German perspective , Leske and Budrich Opladen 1999 ISBN 3-8100-2384-1 (en: Youth and History)
- Learning to think historically - opening up the world instead of an overview of epochs: history as a subject and educational task , Leske and Budrich Opladen 2008 ISBN 978-3-86649-152-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Bodo von Borries in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website at the University of Hamburg
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borries, Bodo from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and history teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |