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Teaching the Cold War - Memory Practices in the Classroom
Dr. Barbara Christophe
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
Member of the Leibniz Association, Germany
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Conference Room 5183
Dr. Christophe will briefly describe the logic of a study that conceptualizes the school as an ideal place to investigate memory practices. Second, she will briefly demonstrate the methodological approaches used by her and the international team. Finally, she will present some preliminary findings.
Some of the key questions Dr. Christophe will consider include:
- How students remember the time of the Cold War?
- What sense do they attribute to a period that can be considered the epitome of certainties?
- How do they make sense of the interpretation offered to them by teachers and in textbooks?
- How do young people who are constantly exposed to a variety of media influences read textbooks?
- And how do teachers who were raised and socialized during the Cold War represent this time period in class?
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Prof. Dr. phil. Barbara Christophe studied history and Slavonic studies. She received her PhD from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1996 and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. Her research focuses include transition studies, peace and conflict research, and memory cultures, with a regional focus on the post-Soviet area, Eastern Europe, and Germany. She is currently heading the international research group "Teaching the Cold War - Memory Practices in the Classroom" at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany.