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Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch - Research profile

History didactics

Theory

  • Conceptual logic of learning tasks and test tasks
  • Change of approach
  • Description of areas of competence and levels of competence of historical thought
  • Distinguishing between reading competence and historical competence
  • Historical cultural historical narratives and historical learning
  • Culture of remembrance

Empirical

  • Measurement of competences in historical and didactic thinking
  • Assessor agreement (learning/performance diagnostics)

Pragmatics

  • Selection processes for adapting content, media and tasks to promote historical and didactic learning
  • Comparative power measurement
  • Didactic reconstruction of historical research processes and results in teaching/learning arrangements
  • Research-based learning
History

Recent and Recent History

  • Amsterdam and the Netherlands at the time of National Socialism and World War II
  • International Relations 1850-1914

Early Modern Period

  • The rise of England to world power
  • Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Middle Ages

  • English Stories of Artus between 1100 and 1500

Antiquities (in preparation)

  • History of Greek Democracy
  • Archaeology in the schoolbook

Theory and methodology

  • Historical Narratology
  • Influences of philosophy and historical context on historiography