Eckert. Beiträge

Fascist Italy fought on the side of Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front and against Yugoslavia in 1941-1943, on whose territory it established its own occupational control. These events were distorted in the post-war years through a narrative of brava gente or ‘good people’ (referring to the Italians) and have only been readdressed through research in the last twenty years. The depiction of this period in Italian textbooks contrasts with that in memorial literature and has seen a shift since the…

How do education policy guidelines manifest themselves in school history textbooks and to what extent is the influence of academic discourse discernible? This study explores such questions through a diachronic longitudinal examination of the how the medieval feudal system is depicted in Hessian school history textbooks published between 1945 and 2015. After assembling as representative a study sample as possible the researchers develop a list of questions, based on the different curricula and…

Based on Gunter Kressand and Theo van Leeuwen’s ‘‘Grammar of Visual Design’’, this study investigates the application of their methodology in an examination of the newly approved history textbook for the sixth grade of primary school. The researchers attempt to analyse each image in the book, both in terms of individual structural elements and in terms of interaction with other images on the same page. The authors consequently make didactic proposals for each image based on the results of the…