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Reg.-Nr.: 504689-LLP-1-2009-1-DE-COMENIUS-CMPWelcome to the TeacMem Project
Welcome! This is the Web presentation of the International Project "TeacMem. Developing Competence-Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories", a joint venture of Institutions in the Fields of History Didactics, Research in Public Historical Memory, Teacher Training and Secondary Schools in Denmark, Germany and Norway. The project is funded by the COMENIUS program of the European Union, EACEA devision. It runs from October 2009 to September 2012. Its far goal is to introduce into history teaching at schools the complex of public memory and remembrance of the National Socialist Germany's politics and atrocities towards people livining in resp. coming from Scandinavia and their countries, and the ways these parts of the mutual (i.e. shared and divided) of history (especially Scandinavians' imprisonment in German Concentration camps, German Ocupation of Denmark and Norway) are being remembered within the participating countries. To this end, the project ventures to bring together teachers, teacher trainers, museum and memorial educators from the participating countries and to enable them to share and exchange their mutual (again: shared and divided) perspectives on the subjects and the traditions as well als debates and developments in learning about these subjects. Next to these tri-national and inter-professional encounters and exchanges of experiences with and perspectives on learning processes regarding these aspects, which will be organised in the form of three international seminars, groups of participants, again mixed as to their country and profession, will develop material packs and teaching concepts, at first for further teacher training within the participating countries, which later on wil resp. can be used for developing teaching and learning concepts for pupils. For these developmentarl processes, online-cooperation is used. On these web-sites, information on the project is presented both for the members of the project and for the public. The site isa combines blog and static presentation. Some pages and blog-entries are for project participants only and thus not visible for outside visitors. A Project Presentation Hamburg, Decemer 2009 Andreas KörberMeta
Author Archives: Lisa Rosa
I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz
Watch this video : On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor’s pop song – ‘I Will Survive’ at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe. … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour on memorial sites
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Historians criticize the new shaping of “Ehrenmahl Laboe”
The memory site in Laboe near Kiel is a hero memory site of the Wehrmacht marines - it mingles perpetrators and victims and is an overwhelming presentation instead of a presentation which facilitates “reflected history conciousness” – say five historians (e.g. Detlev Garbe) about the new … Continue reading
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A novel about routinization of remembrance
Iris Hanika’s novel “Das Eigentliche” reflects some problems of the institutionalized commemoration. Martin Zingg has reviewed the novel: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur/routiniertes_gedenken_1.6318796.html
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2 Books to be recommended
There are two new books which have a very close respect to our issues and which I find very exciting: Firstly the book from Henning Niederhoff who was the representative for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Palestine and was living in Ramallah for the years 1994 to … Continue reading
Deutsche Bahn und deutsche Erinnerungskultur
“Die “Deutsche Bahn AG” beteiligt sich mit einer “Leistungsschau des Eisenbahnbaus” am Jubiläumsjahr und präsentiert die hakenkreuzgeschmückte “Reichsbahn”-Lok E 19 12 – ein “Glanzlicht der Eisenbahngeschichte”, heißt es am Auschwitz-Gedenktag auf der Website des Unternehmens. Diese innerdeutsche Leugnung der Verbrechenszusammenhänge … Continue reading
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Tagged Auschwitz-Gedenktag, Deutsche Bahn, Germany, memorial culture
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Press article about students’ missing motivation to learn about the holocaust
An interesting press article refers¬†a study that¬†identifies¬†the problem¬†of students’ motivation to learn about the holocaust in the lack of¬†constructing a¬†connection with the students’ present. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/jobkarriere/129/501385/text/
An Interesting Article about Memory Sites in the Digital Age
Demokratische Erinnerung Der Streit um die Stiftung “Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung” zeigt: Ein zentrales und repräsentatives Gedenken passt nicht ins digitale Zeitalter Dies ist das Fazit des Artikels von Pit Fiedler in der Taz vom 7.1.10 http://www.taz.de/1/debatte/kommentar/artikel/1/demokratische-erinnerung/
How to use the TeacMem project blog
Here you may find a guideline for using our project blog. I hope you will find it comprehensible and useful. I apologize for my bad English – please, feel free to correct my mistakes! And please tell me about every … Continue reading
Memory culture web 2.0
One member of my twitter net community has sent me the following link about a new practice in the internet, to create with social media a actually dead holocaust victim as virtual vivid. This creation is called in the article … Continue reading
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Tagged forms of memorising, memorial culture, web 2.0
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Historical Analogy: Helpdesk in the Middle Ages
This video is original Norwegian – subtitled in German language.¬†It’s¬†about how¬†the specific main information and communication media of¬†our own reference framing¬†¬†age is shaping our expectations and our behaviour: Helpdesk in the Middle Ages http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAlzKHYFnA