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Ursula AJ Becher (* 1934 ) is a German historian , history teacher and university teacher .

Life

After graduating from the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, Ursula AJ Becher studied at the Pedagogical Academy in Aachen from 1954 to 1956. In 1959 she passed the second state examination. In 1962/63 she worked as a language assistant for a year as part of an exchange program at a French grammar school in Clermont-Ferrand and completed a year of study at the university there . After returning from France, she continued to teach at the Düsseldorf school.

From 1966, Becher worked as a pedagogical assistant at the seminar for didactics of the history of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Here she met the historian and history educator Friedrich J. Lucas . She got to know his theoretically demanding history didactics and worked on their further development. At the same time, she was given the opportunity to take a second degree in history, Romance studies and philosophy. In 1974 she did her doctorate under Lothar Gall with a study on the development of a concept of political society in German Reich journalism in the 18th century. In 1974 she moved to the Ruhr University in Bochum . There she became a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History III ( Jörn Rüsen ). In 1983, she completed her habilitation with a study of the history of French history in the 19th century. Since then she has been a private lecturer at the Faculty of History of the Ruhr University Bochum and has also taken on substitute professorships in Bochum and Gießen.

In 1986 she was offered a professorship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . There she taught as a professor for the theory and didactics of history. From 1992 until her retirement in 2000 she was director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig and participated in the German-Polish Textbook Commission and other international cooperation projects of the institute.

Research and Teaching

Her main research interests are the history of historical studies, the history of mentality and culture in the 18th century, the educational history of women, the theoretical foundations of a didactic of history.

Fonts

Monographs

• History of the modern lifestyle. Eating - Living - Leisure - Travel, Munich 1990 ISBN 978-3406344459
• Interest in history and historical discourse: a contribution to the history of French historical studies in the 19th century, Stuttgart 1986 (Studies on modern history 23) ISBN 978-3515042376
• Political society: Studies on the genesis of the bourgeois public in Germany, Göttingen 1978 (publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, Vol. 47) ISBN 978-3525353707
• The implicit reader of historiography: on the didactic dimension of historical science, Munich 1989 (Eichstätter Hochschulreden 72) - ISBN 978-3-597-30072-2

Editorships

• Germany and Poland in the Twentieth Century: Analyzes - Sources - Didactic Notes, ed. by Ursula AJ Becher, Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Robert Maier, Hannover 2001 ISBN 978-3-88304-141-4
• International understanding: 25 years of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research in Braunschweig, ed. by Ursula AJ Becher, Rainer Riemenschneider, Roderich Henry, Hannover 2000 (Studies on international textbook research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute, Vol. 100) - ISBN 978-3-88304-300-5
• Boundaries and ambivalences: Analyzes of the image of Germany in the Netherlands and in Dutch school books, ed. by Ursula AJ Becher, Frankfurt / M. 1996 (Studies on international textbook research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute, Vol. 47) - ISBN 978-3-88304-287-9
• Femininity in a historical perspective. Case studies and reflections on basic problems in historical women's studies, ed. by Ursula AJ Becher, Jörn Rüsen, Frankfurt / M. 1988 - ISBN 978-3-518-28325-7
• History - benefit or disadvantage for life? Anthology for the 10th anniversary of the journal 'Geschichtsdidaktik', ed. by Ursula AJ Becher and Klaus Bergmann, Düsseldorf 1986 (= studies - materials. Volume 43. History didactics, edited by Klaus Bergmann, Annette Kuhn, Jörn Rüsen, Gerhard Schneider) - ISBN 978-3-590-18055-0
• History as a committed science. On the theory of historical didactics, ed. v. Ursula AJ Becher / Klaus Bergmann / Ulrich Mayer / Hans-Jürgen Pandel / Walter Petzinger, Stuttgart 1985 (comments and arguments on historical and political education) - ISBN 978-3129202920

Web links

• Literature by and about Ursula AJ Becher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Ursula AJ Becher German-Polish Textbook Commission
• Website of the Georg Eckert Institute with information on the directors of the institute