Peter Gautschi

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Peter Gautschi (* 1959 in Zofingen ) is a Swiss history teacher .

Portrait of Peter Gautschi, Lucerne University of Education, 2015

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Peter Gautschi received his diploma as a primary and secondary school teacher in 1979 . He then studied history, German and Romance languages at the universities of Zurich and Neuchâtel and graduated in 1983 with a diploma as a district teacher . Between 1979 and 2004 he taught at all levels of elementary school . At the same time, he continued his education as a history didactician and from 1989 worked as a lecturer for history didactics and as head of practical teaching training at the Aargau University of Education. In 2009 Gautschi received his doctorate from the University of Kassel . From 2002 to 2009 he was also head of the secondary level I institute at the Aargau University of Education / Northwestern Switzerland, where he was appointed professor for history didactics in 2003. From 2009 to 2011 he held the professorship for didactics of social sciences and its disciplines at the FHNW University of Education . In 2011, Peter Gautschi took a reputation as a professor of history and history teaching at the PH Lucerne on. He was commissioned to set up an institute for history didactics and cultures of remembrance in Lucerne , which opened in September 2012 and which he has headed since then. The institute fulfills a comprehensive four-fold performance mandate: training, continuing education, research and development, service A special characteristic is the circular process of research, theory and practice in five focal points: teaching research and public history; School history books and extracurricular learning locations; Oral history and foreign placements; Memory narratives and mythizations; Political Education and Human Rights. In 2011 Gautschi was also appointed honorary professor at the PH Freiburg / Germany .

Gautschi conducts classroom research in the subject of history with a special focus on phenomena, outcome and intervention research, and he is the author of various school history books. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and since 2017 of the Scientific Committee of Remember.at - National Socialism and Holocaust: Memory and the Present in Bregenz , Austria , and since 2016 co-editor of the international blog Journals Public History Weekly .

In addition to his teaching, research and development activities, Gautschi has helped develop and set up several new courses, for example at the Didaktikum Aarau for district teachers, at the Aargau University of Education and at the PH FHNW for secondary level I teachers and at the PH Lucerne for secondary level II -Teachers of history as well as for history didactics and public history teaching (History Education and Public History MA program).

Professional focus

  • Education and training of teachers for secondary levels I and II, especially for the subject of history
  • Activity in education and science management
  • Educational research
  • Development of curricula as well as analog and digital teaching materials
  • Occupation with public history and with Swiss cultures of history and remembrance

Awards

  • Worlddidac Award 2000 for the publication Teaching History
  • Worlddidac Award 2002 for the history teaching tool Forget or Remember - Genocide Past and Present (team of authors)
  • Golden slate 2006 for the history teaching material Many Paths - One World (team of authors)
  • Worlddidac Award 2006 for the history teaching tool Look and ask - Switzerland and National Socialism in the light of current issues (team of authors)
  • Worlddidac Award 2008 for the history teaching tool People in Time and Space (team of authors)
  • Carl Lutz Medal for engagement in Holocaust Education, Lucerne 2015
  • Worlddidac Award 2016 for the My Bourbaki Panorama tablet app (development team)
  • Worlddidac Award 2016 for the school history book Zeitreise (team of authors)
  • Worlddidac Award 2018 for the learning app "Fleeing the Holocaust" (trailer)

Fonts

Monographs
  • Good history lesson: basics, insights, pointers . 3. Edition. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2014, ISBN 978-3-89974-516-0 .
  • Teaching history. Learning paths and learning situations for young people . 6th edition. Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Aargau, 2015, ISBN 978-3-292-00659-2 .
Editorships
  • Peter Gautschi, Daniel V. Moser, Kurt Reusser, Pit Wiher: History Lessons Today. An empirical analysis of selected aspects. hep, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-03905-314-8 .
  • Peter Gautschi, Tilman Rhode-Jüchtern, Wolfgang Sander, Birgit Weber: Journal for Didactics of Social Sciences (ZDG). Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach am Taunus (from 2010).
  • Peter Gautschi, Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting, Béatrice Ziegler : Shoa and School. Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. Chronos, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0340-1165-5 .
  • Peter Gautschi, Barbara Sommer Häller: The contribution of schools and universities to cultures of remembrance. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach am Taunus, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7344-0429-0 .
  • Paul Bernet, Peter Gautschi, Aram Mattioli , Julia Müller: People with moral courage. Courage, resistance and responsible action in the past and present. Education and Culture Department of the Canton of Lucerne (BKD), Lucerne 2014, ISBN 978-3-271-60002-5 .
  • Markus Furrer, Peter Gautschi: Remembering and Recounting the Cold War - Commonly Shared History? Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach am Taunus, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7344-0429-0 .
  • Peter Gautschi, Armin Rempfler, Barbara Sommer Häller, Markus Wilhelm: Acquisition practices in extracurricular learning locations. Proceedings of the 5th conference of extracurricular learning locations of the PH Luzern from June 9th and 10th 2017. LIT Verlag, Münster u. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-80274-3 .
  • Barbara Christophe, Peter Gautschi, Robert Thorp: The Cold War in the Classroom. International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-11999-7 . (Open book)
  • Nadine Fink, Markus Furrer, Peter Gautschi: The Teaching of the History of One's Own Country. International Experiences in a Comparative Perspective. Wochenschau Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-7344-0983-7 . (Download)

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personal data
SURNAME Gautschi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and history educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Zofingen