Results

With in the teacMem project,  a number of teaching concepts and methods were developed for addressing memory culture in an interculturally reflective way in teacher training and history teaching at school. Most of them are being published in

Bjerg, Helle; Körber, Andreas; Lenz, Claudia; von Wrochem, Oliver (Eds.; 2013): Teaching Historical Memories in an Intercultural Perspective. Concepts and Methods. Experiences and Results from the TeacMem Project. Edited on behalf of  Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. Berlin: Metropol (Neuengammer Kolloquien; 4), ISBN 978-3-86331-114-8

1. Memory Cultures in Denmark, Norway and Germany
   1. The TeacMem project addressed memory cultures on the examples of the shared and divided histories of Denmark, Germany and Germany in the time of World War II, namely the occupation of the former two countries by the latter one and the imprisonment of many Scandinavians in German Concentrations Camps, but also their release by the “White Buses Action” of Spring 1945 — just before the German capitulation. The three countries have developed quite different forms of addressing this past in their public but also private memories. The uniting Europe faces the challenge of developing an own memory culture, just like a new “common European historical consciousness”. However, the role model of nation building by history teaching so successful in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century may not be followed again within Europe because of the equally great but quite diverse relevance of historical memories in different European nations. The challenge of “growing together” and of developing a new, common Historical Consciousness for the “New Europe” therefore includes the challenge of not eradicating the differences in favor of a new, monolithic historical consciousness and memory culture, but rather to promote an open attitude towards diversity in historical interpretation (within the limits of reason and plausibility, of course) and to promote the abilities to detect, tolerate, accept, recognize and reflect the different historical accounts and interpretations, their relevance for identities and future lives. History teaching therefore must rather be
   2. Part of the results of the TeacMem Project therefore are presentations of the specificities of “national” (but also “regional”) memory cultures related to WWII as they have become subject within the TeacMem seminars. They are presented in the following articles within Bjerg/Körber/Lenz/von Wrochem (Eds.; 2013):
      • Ulrike Jensen: Remembering Ambivalent Histories and Contested Commemoration: The White Buses February 25, 2013
      • Oliver von Wrochem: Dealing with Perpetrators February 25, 2013
      • Claudia Lenz • Harald Syse: Exploring Norwegian memory culture with competence-oriented learning method. The TeacMem seminar in Oslo February 25, 2013
      • Helle Bjerg • Katrine Vinther Scheibel: Staging Danish Memory Culture. A Report on the Copenhagen Seminar. February 25, 2013
      • Wrochem, Oliver von: The development of memory culture in German society after the war and the Nazi era. Memorials as symbolic sites of “negative memory” and as places to develop a reflective historical consciousness February 25, 2013
      • Jenny Heggvik • May Britt Wiel Haugland: “So hard an age, when battles rage”. A teaching programme about war memorials in Telavåg and Bergen January 25, 2013
      • Claudia Lenz: Mutual Guided Tour of the Akershus Fortress Memorial Landscape November 22, 2012
      • TeacMem: The Second (Copenhagen) Seminar – Short Report November 25, 2010
      • An introduction to The North Sea Traffic Museum October 30, 2009
      • View of Televag October 30, 2009
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2. Teaching Concepts and Methods: 
   • Ulrike Jensen: Remembering Ambivalent Histories and Contested Commemoration: The White Buses February 25, 2013
   • Oliver von Wrochem: Dealing with Perpetrators February 25, 2013
   • Harald Syse: Perpetrators and Responsibility in Holocaust Education: February 25, 2013
   • Harald Syse: Memory Cards February 25, 2013
   • Claudia Lenz • Anne Talsnes: Stimulated Recall. Tracing learning narratives and reinforcing historical competence February 25, 2013
   • Helle Bjerg • Katrine Vinther Scheibel: ‘When I think of World War II, I think of…’. A didactical exercise for stimulating reflection on memorial cultures February 25, 2013
   • Andreas Körber: De-Constructing Memory Culture February 25, 2013
   • Körber, Andreas: Historical Thinking and Historical Competencies as Didactical Core Concepts February 25, 2013
   • Jenny Heggvik • May Britt Wiel Haugland: “So hard an age, when battles rage”. A teaching programme about war memorials in Telavåg and Bergen January 25, 2013
   • Claudia Lenz: Mutual Guided Tour of the Akershus Fortress Memorial Landscape November 22, 2012
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   1. Initialising Reflection on memory Culture:
      • Harald Syse: Perpetrators and Responsibility in Holocaust Education: February 25, 2013
      • Harald Syse: Memory Cards February 25, 2013
      • Helle Bjerg • Katrine Vinther Scheibel: ‘When I think of World War II, I think of…’. A didactical exercise for stimulating reflection on memorial cultures February 25, 2013
      • Claudia Lenz: Mutual Guided Tour of the Akershus Fortress Memorial Landscape November 22, 2012
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   2. Initialising reflection on Learning processes:
      • Claudia Lenz • Anne Talsnes: Stimulated Recall. Tracing learning narratives and reinforcing historical competence February 25, 2013
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3. Teaching Materials:
   • Ulrike Jensen: Remembering Ambivalent Histories and Contested Commemoration: The White Buses February 25, 2013
   • Oliver von Wrochem: Dealing with Perpetrators February 25, 2013
   • Harald Syse: Perpetrators and Responsibility in Holocaust Education: February 25, 2013
   • Harald Syse: Memory Cards February 25, 2013
   • Körber, Andreas: Historical Thinking and Historical Competencies as Didactical Core Concepts February 25, 2013
   • Jenny Heggvik • May Britt Wiel Haugland: “So hard an age, when battles rage”. A teaching programme about war memorials in Telavåg and Bergen January 25, 2013
   • Claudia Lenz: Mutual Guided Tour of the Akershus Fortress Memorial Landscape November 22, 2012
   ... more