Questions to history

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Questions to History is a textbook for high schools in Germany.

concept

The didactic basis of the work was developed by Heinz Dieter Schmid , partly in collaboration with Margarete Dörr . It is a pure "workbook": this means that it does not contain any author texts that provide a ready-made interpretation of the story, but only sources whose meaning the pupils should understand for themselves. Most of today's history books are so-called "combined learning and work books", which contain both an author's text and a source or material part for editing (in different order). Questions to History was a conceptual answer and criticism of German history books, which were practically "historical handbooks" until the 1960s. They contained an author's text with an often very one-dimensional interpretation of history, without showing the multiple perspectives and the constructive nature of history.

History of appearance

The four volumes were published by Hirschgraben - later by Cornelsen Verlag - from 1975. Volumes 1 to 4 are out of print. Volume 4 (often incorrectly referred to as Volume 3) was available until 2011 under the title “Questions to History - The 20th Century”, 1999 from Cornelsen, edited by Heinz D. Schmid and Eberhard Wilms . Although out of print, the four teacher volumes are still used today by older teachers to prepare for lessons and reveal the didactic basis of the work for a new kind of work lesson instead of mere instruction.

On May 2, 1985, the work was awarded the European Prize of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig.

Schmid's employees

Schmid's employees at the plant included questions about history . a. Joachim Betz (* 1946), today Professor in Hamburg (1973/74 trainee lawyer in Reutlingen ), Hermann de Buhr (* 1939), Professor of History in Wuppertal, Professor Gertrud Bühler (1920–2008), Head of History at the Rottweil Study Seminar , Professor Margarete Dörr (1928-2014), from 1966 to 1988 Head of History at the study seminars in Stuttgart and Heilbronn , Janbernd Geuting (* 1936), history teacher at the grammar school in Münster-Wolbeck and head of the study seminar in Münster , Horst Gies (* 1938 ), Professor for history didactics in Berlin, Gottfried Rupprecht Leuthold, headmaster of the Gymnasium Münsingen , Udo Margedant , professor in Wuppertal , Günther Peternek, history teacher at the Gymnasium Tettnang , Rudolf Renz (* 1940), history teacher at the Gymnasium Metzingen and from 1991 to 2004 lecturer at the Oberschulamt Tübingen , Eberhard Schanbacher, in the 1970s employee at the seminar for contemporary history at the University of Tübingen and later school Head of the Laichingen grammar school , Eberhard Sieber (* 1942), history teacher at the grammar school in Kirchheim unter Teck , Eberhard Wilms (* 1940), history teacher at the Wendlingen grammar school , and Heinz Grosche, history teacher at the grammar school in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

The majority of the employees at Schmid's Questions on History come from Württemberg and were born before the Federal Republic of Germany was founded.

criticism

Criticism arose at the many small excerpts from historical sources ("source snippets") because they do not provide an overview of the entire source. Others missed a continuous author text that offered the students an introduction to the topic. The authors reacted to this criticism in volumes 3 and 4 and provided overview texts and tables so that individual chapters can be worked on even without the instruction from the teacher, which is normally always necessary.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, February 2, 1999 or reprint in the annual report of the Wolbeck high school 1998/99
  2. ↑ See http://dzok-ulm.de/mitteilungen/mitteilungsblatt45/Mitt45.pdf
  3. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences 2000/2001

literature

  • Eberhard Wilms (Ed.): History - Thinking and Working Subject. Hirschgraben-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1986.
  • Margarete Dörr: The textbook in history lessons. In: Eberhard Jäckel / Ernst Weymar (ed.): Festschrift Karl Dietrich Erdmann . Stuttgart 1975, p. 194 ff.
  • Peter Ensthaler, Hans-Joachim Bötel: A new approach to textbook design. Heinz Dieter Schmid, “Questions to History” . In: International Yearbook for History and Geography Lessons , Vol. XVII. Braunschweig 1976.