2024
Faculty of Humanities

Europe in the classroom - Chemnitz analyses of socialist and post-socialist textbooks

The project examines references to Europe before and after the reunification of Germany and the "fall of the Iron Curtain" in textbooks and learning materials in the GDR and the German federal state of Saxony, which are particulary available in the libraries and archives in Chemnitz. In doing so, the way in which Europe is thematized, but also the regional-European localizations as well as world and human images are identified and made visible. As part of the project, students are researching, cataloguing and analyzing textbooks from the subjects of history and social studies (Staatsbürgerkunde in the GDR) shortly before and after the reunification of the 9th and 10th grades.

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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Deppe