This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation. It does so using educational media - both textbooks and digital media - as sites of cultural contestation to enquire into the intricate relationships around national and European identities and aspects of students’ knowledge and reception. Using a variety of methods and technologies, the chapters analyse identity constructions present in educational media discourses, embedded as they are in their national and European contexts and as both the catalysts and products of their time. The book is a study of the post-digital condition in an educational context, exploring the potential of digital humanities and linguistic approaches for educational media research and employing methods such as eye-tracking or concept maps.

This book deals with the challenges for history education arising from the centrality of colonialism in shaping the modern world. It breaks new ground by bringing together an international range of national studies on the legacies of colonialism that permeate the way how colonial history is thought and taught at schools. The case studies examine the representation, understanding and use of colonial heritage from different angles: They focus on European and non-European states as well as on states with and without colonial past as colonizers or colonized. Thus, and with its wide range of approaches - postcolonial theory, memory studies, educational media studies, teaching practice - this volume makes an essential research contribution to the ongoing international debate on the position of colonial history in present and future history education.

Stereotype sind seit der Einfuhrung des modernen Stereotypen-Begriffs vor etwa einem Jahrhundert durch Walter Lippmann ein beliebtes und vielfaltiges Thema von Untersuchungen in unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen. Der Band enthalt die Beitrage aus zwei Symposien zur interdisziplinaren Stereotypenforschung, die 2013 und 2014 an den Universitaten in Odense und Kiel stattfanden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen eine breite Auswahl aktueller theoretischer und methodischer Ansatze aus der linguistischen sowie der angewandten gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen und lehr- und lernbezogenen Stereotypenforschung (Spracherwerbsforschung und Fremdsprachendidaktik) vor und berichten uber ihre Untersuchungen, Ergebnisse und zukunftige Forschungsperspektiven.