Gerhard Henke-Bockschatz

Gerhard Henke-Bockschatz (* 1954 in Bielefeld ) is a German history teacher and was professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 2001 to 2019 .

Henke-Bockschatz studied German and history for the high school teaching post in Heidelberg and Hamburg and worked as a teacher at several schools in Hamburg. His doctorate in Modern History took place in 1990 with a socio-historical study of glass workers in the 19th century, and his habilitation in 1997 in Modern History and Didactics of History with a paper on the historical culture of the early labor movement in the 19th century. He was a research assistant at the professorship for history didactics ( Jochen Huhn ) at the University of Kassel from 1992 to 1997, then a university lecturer and from 2000 professor for history didactics in Frankfurt / Main.

The focus of work and research is on the extracurricular history culture, methods of historical learning and information and communication technologies in history lessons .

Publications

Monographs

• Just brave to the fireplace! Studies on working life in the glassmaking town of Gernheim an der Weser , 1812–1893, vd Linnepe, Hagen 1988, ISBN 3-921297-83-4 .
• Glassworks workers in early industrialization (publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. XXXIV: Sources and studies on the economic and social history of Lower Saxony in modern times), Hahn, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-7752-5876-0 .
• as Mithrsg .: History and historical learning . Festschrift for Jochen Huhn on his 65th birthday, Kassel 1995.
• Industrialization . (Fundus - sources for history lessons). Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2003, ISBN 3-87920-745-3 .
• as editor with Bettina Alavi : History lessons and history culture in multiethnic society , Idstein 2004.
• as ed. with Markus Bernhardt and Michael Sauer : Images - Perceptions - Constructions. Reflections on history and historical learning. Festschrift for Ulrich Mayer on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Schwalbach 2006.
• Oral history in history class . (Methods of historical learning), Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2014, ISBN 978-3-89974-889-5 .
• The First World War . Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-0193174 .
• as publisher: New historical didactic research: current projects , V&R unipress, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0504-6 .

Contributions

• Learn history clearly. On the role of the imagination in the process of historical learning , in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Studium, vol. 51 (2000), issue 7/8, pp. 418–429.
• Inquiry and discovery learning , in: Ulrich Mayer, Hans-Jürgen Pandel, Gerhard Schneider (Eds.): Handbook Methods in History Lessons, Schwalbach / Ts. 2004, pp. 15-29.
• Survey of contemporary witnesses , in: Ulrich Mayer, Hans-Jürgen Pandel, Gerhard Schneider (Eds.): Handbook Methods in History Lessons, Schwalbach / Ts. 2004, pp. 354-370.
• Contemporary children's and youth literature as a medium of historical learning , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans-Heino Ewers (Ed.): War and post-war childhood . Studies on literary culture of remembrance for young readers , Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2008, pp. 197-215.
• Good history lessons from a didactic perspective . In: History in Science and Education, Issue 5/6 (May / June), 2011, pp. 298–311.
• Notes on the depiction of the global economic crisis in German history textbooks , in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Studium, 61st Jg. (2010), pp. 343–355.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Henke-Bockschatz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Frankfurt / M.