Geschichtsbilder sehen. Narrative Formen als Gegenstand des Lernens mit Geschichten

Im Zuge einer ikonischen Wende in den Geisteswissenschaften hat das Visuelle an Bedeutung für den kritischen Umgang mit Bildungsmedien wie Schulbücher und deren Inhalte gewonnen. Während frühe Arbeiten vor allem eine Kritik an der Vorstellung des Bildes als Anhängsel des Texts übten, erlaubte die Ausweitung des Bildbegriffs eine Annäherung verschiedener semiotischer Ansätze. Am Beispiel von Geschichtsschulbüchern stellt sich der Aufsatz die Frage inwieweit (Schulbuch)Narrative als Bilder verstanden werden können und wie ein solches Verständnis neue methodische Perspektiven auf das Lernen mit dem Bildungsmedium eröffnet. (DIPF/Orig.)

Charles Darwin goes to school: the role of cartoons and narrative in setting science in an historical context

Science education is under revision. Recent changes in society require changes in education to respond to new demands. Scientific literacy can be considered a new goal of science education and the epistemological gap between natural sciences and literacy disciplines must be overcome. The history of science is a possible bridge to link these `two cultures` and to foster an interdisciplinary approach in the classroom. This paper acknowledges Darwin`s legacy and proposes the use of cartoons and narrative expositions to put this interesting chapter of science into its historical context. A five-lesson didactic sequence was developed to tell part of the story of Darwin`s expedition through South America for students from 10 to 12 years of age. Beyond geological and biological perspectives, the inclusion of historical, social and geographical facts demonstrated the beauty and complexity of the findings that Darwin employed to propose the theory of evolution.

A Critical Appraisal of Narrative in Sport History: Reading the Surf Lifesaving Debate

All debates in history—who started the Cold War, how successful were the Chartists in achieving their aims, to what extent was the recession of the American frontier culturally significant in American history— are debates between competing narrative interpretations. Moreover, because the historical imagination itself exists intertextually within our own social and political environment, the past is never discovered set aside from everyday life. History is designed and composed in the here and now.

Remembering sport history: Narrative, social memory and the origins of the rugby league in Australia

This study examines the historiography of the origins of rugby league in Australia. By accepting the inclusive nature of representation of the past as found in social memory theory, a wide range of sources ranging from histories written by academics to annuals, yearbooks and newspaper books are consulted. These sources reveal that there are several competing and conflicting accounts of the emergence of rugby league in Australia. These divergent accounts are used to facilitate a discussion of the role of narrative in sport history This article argues that narrative is an integral, not optional, feature of the production of history and that the historography of the origins of rugby league highlight the problematic nature of objectivity in history and the unavoidable, impositionalist role of the historian.