Historicising the uses of the past : : Scandinavian perspectives on history culture, historical consciousness and didactics of history related to World War II / / Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, Erik Thorstensen (editors).

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2014]
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Year of Publication:2011
2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Time, meaning, culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 CONTENTS 5 Introduction 7 Representations of Victims and Guilty in Public History. The Case of the Finnish Civil War in 1918 27 The Holocaust as History Culture in Finland 45 The Nazi Camps in the Norwegian Historical Culture 57 The Norwegian Fascist Monument at Stiklestad 1944-45 77 The Holocaust and Memory Culture: The Case of Sweden 91 Small and Moral Nations. Europe and the Emerging Politics of Memory 107 Processing Time - On the Manifestations and Activations of Historical Consciousness 129 German History Didactics: From Historical Consciousness to Historical Competencies - and Beyond? 145 Coping with Burdening History 165 Exhibiting the War. Approaches to World War II in Museums and Exhibitions 189 World War II at 24 Frames a Second - Scandinavian Examples 207 Historical Propaganda and New Popular Cultural Medial Expressions 227 The Culture of Memory in the "Grandchildren Generation" in Denmark 241 Strengthening Narrative Competence by Diversification of (Hi)stories 257 How to Examine the (Self-)Reflective Effects of History Teaching 281 Contributors 303