EHISTO project

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EHISTO (European history crossroads as pathways to intercultural and media education) is concerned with the mediation of history in popular (science) media and the question of social and political responsibility of journalists and other mediators of history, especially teachers, in the field of commercial presentation of history. The project responds to the increasing significance of a commercialised mediation of history within the public historical culture and reflects the fact that these representations, which do not always meet the EU standards for history education, can have a lasting impact on the young generation’s understanding of history.

Using the example of popular history magazines, the project shall, besides the necessary basic research, develop didactically reflected materials for both history education in school as well as initial and in-service teacher training. On one hand enable a media-critical examination of history magazines and on the other hand, by working with the history magazines, the project addresses itself to popular interpretations of history from the participating countries and reflects their similarities and differences in European cultures of remembrance. Therefore, this approach not only trains media-critical competences but furthermore enables a multi-perspective and comparative access to history.

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    Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe
    (PETER LANG LTD International Academic Publishers, Frankfurt am Main, 2015-01) Popp, Susanne; Schumann, Jutta; Hannig, Miriam
    This volume of essays is the result of the EU project «EHISTO», which dealt with the mediation of history in popular history magazines and explored how history in the commercialised mass media can be used in history teaching in order to develop the media literacy and the transcultural competences of young people. The volume offers articles which for the first time address the phenomenon of popular history magazines in Europe and their mediating strategies in a foundational way. The articles are intended as introductory material for teachers and student teachers. The topic also offers an innovative approach in terms of making possible a European cross-country comparison, in which results based on qualitative and quantitative methods are presented, related to the content focus areas profiled in the national magazines.
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    Initial teacher training Module handbook
    (2014-10-16) Popp, Susanne; Hannig, Miriam; Haydn, Terry
    This Module guide for initial teacher training is one result of the EHISTO (European history crossroads as pathways to intercultural and media education)-project. It is aimed at experts in initial teacher training who carry out history seminars about EHISTO related topic, modularised in line with the Bologna Process. It comprises fourteen steps each planned for 2×45 minutes. Extracts from the resources can be used, or the package can be used in full, depending on how much teaching time is available to spend on exploring the EHISTO project.
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    Germany - The depiction of Christopher Columbus in popular history magazines
    (2014-10-16) Hannig, Miriam
    The learning object presented here deals with the image of Columbus that is portrayed in German and English popular history magazines, which were selected as examples. The main focus is on how illustrations are used in the magazine articles and whether the way of presenting them meets the standards of using historical sources. The tasks presented in this learning object can be seen as suggestions for dealing with this topic and can also be used for analysing the presentation of illustrations in history magazines from other countries (additional material). Furthermore you can find overviews, which summarise the depiction of Columbus and the “discovery” in national history textbooks (additional material) to give you an understanding of the national tendencies in presenting the topic.
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    Germany - The way the beginning of World War One is presented in popular history magazines
    (2014-10-16) Hannig, Miriam
    The unit shown deals with the start of World War One and its representation mainly in German and Swedish popular history magazines, which are examples introduced in the following. The focus is on pictures used for illustrating the assassination of Sarajevo both in textbooks and in magazines. Considering this, the central question is, how those pictures are selected and presented as historical sources. Furthermore, the unit tries to figure out, whether the question of the guilt of war is regarded to be multi-perspective or explicit.
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