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ERIC Number: EJ1169473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Sep
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2041-6938
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Memory Practices in the Classroom: On Reproducing, Destabilizing and Interrupting Majority Memories
Ahlrichs, Johanna; Baier, Katharina; Christophe, Barbara; Macgilchrist, Felicitas; Mielke, Patrick; Richtera, Roman
Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, v7 n2 p89-109 Sep 2015
This article draws on memory studies and media studies to explore how memory practices unfold in schools today. It explores history education as a media-saturated cultural site in which particular social orderings and categorizations emerge as commonsensical and others are contested. Describing vignettes from ethnographic fieldwork in German secondary schools, this article identifies different memory practices as a nexus of pupils, teachers, blackboards, pens, textbooks, and online videos that enacts what counts as worth remembering today: reproduction; destabilization without explicit contestation; and interruption. Exploring mediated memory practices thus highlights an array of (often unintended) ways of making the past present.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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