Why History Education?

ANITHA OFORIWAH ADU-BOAHEN is a Senior Lecturer in History Education at the University of Education Winneba, Ghana. Her main research interests include Historical Education with special focus on teaching and learning history, Curriculum Development and Evaluation.SEBASTIAN BARSCH, Dr., is Professor of the Didactics of History at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on inclusive history education, material culture, and disability history.KARL P. BENZIGER, Ph. D. is a Professor of History at Rhode Island College. Main research interests: History and Memory, Cold War, Hungary, Civil Rights, Global History, and History Education.ANDREA BRAIT, MMag. Dr., Associate Professor at the Department of Contemporary History and the Department of subject-specific Education of the University of Innsbruck. Main research interests: historical-political learning, out-of-school learning places.ALEX BUFF; Dr., Professor of Psychology at the Zurich University of Teacher Education in Zurich, Switzerland. Main research interests: quantitative research methods; educational psychology, motivation.AURÉLIE DE MESTRAL, Dr. in History Didactics and History of Education at the University of Geneva and the University of Teacher Education in Lausanne, Switzerland. Main research interests: transformation of school knowledge in history from a didactic and historical point of view, programs and textbook analysis, gender studies.SYLVAIN DOUSSOT, Dr., Professor of History Didactics at the Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l'Education of Nantes University, France. Main research interests: the relationship between teaching and learning history, and the didactic training of teachers, within the theoretical framework of learning by problematization.EUGÈNE DÉSIRÉ ELOUNDOU, Doctorate in History from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Associate Professor of History and Teacher Trainer at the Higher Teacher Training College University of Yaoundé 1. Main research interests: The history of Cameroon under German colonization and history didactics.ELISABETH ERDMANN, Prof. Dr. phil. habil., until 2007 Chair of the Didactics of History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, from 2001-2011 President of the International Society for the Didactics of History, since 2011 Honorary President. Main fields of work: Didactics of History, Ancient History, Archaeology.NADINE FINK, Dr., Professor of History Didactics at the University of Teacher Education in Lausanne, Switzerland. Main research interests: teaching and learning practices in history; relations between memory, history and identity; oral history and critical thinking.MARKUS FURRER, Prof. em. Dr., until 2022 Professor for History and the Didactics of History at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education/Switzerland, PD at the University of Fribourg. Main research interest: Contemporary History, Oral History and the Use of History.PETER GAUTSCHI, Dr. phil., is Professor of History Education at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education/Switzerland, where he also is the Head of the Lucerne Institute for History Education and Public History. His research focuses on history education, public history, and curriculum and textbooks development.KATJA GORBAHN, Dr. phil., Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. Main research interests: textbook analysis, history didactics and second language acquisition, identity constructions in historical narratives, digital analysis methods.KAAREL HAAV, Dr., graduated from Tartu University as a historian and a teacher of history and civics. More recently he has conducted a number of sociological studies and designed the main sociological concepts into a system. He has used this system in his teaching and research on civic education and curriculum development in Estonia and Europe.WOLFGANG HASBERG, Dr., Professor for Mediaeval History and History Didactics at the University of Colog