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THURINGIAN STUDENTS ATTENDING GRADE
ELEVEN AND THEIR THE GDR-REPRESANTATION
- CONCEPTS, CAUSES UND CONSEQUENCES OF
HISTORY TEACHING -
Kathrin Schröter
Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft/Didaktik der Geschichte; Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
44780 Bochum, Germany
e-mail: kathrin.schroeter@rub.de
This thesis project is a replication study to Monika Deutz-Schroeder’s and Klaus Schroeder’s
investigation „Soziales Paradies oder Stasi-Staat? Das DDR-Bild von Schülern – ein Ost-
West-Vergleich“ 1 . Schroeder et al. stated that East German pupils glorify the GDR and
feature deficit knowledge with regard to the GDR. Although Schroeder's investigation was
criticised by scientific side for methodical defects, it had crucial educational consequences.
The aim of this project is to certify Schroeder’s study regionally on the basis of Thuringian
pupils. By a quantitative survey, students’ concepts and attitudes about the GDR can be
determined. Furthermore reasons for different representations of History should be
ascertained. The focus will be placed on the teaching of history.
In a comparative analysis it will be examined whether specific effects of intensity or form of
curricular dealing with the GDR can be identified so that didactical consequences can be
formulated.
1 DEUTZ-SCHROEDER, MONIKA/ SCHROEDER, KLAUS: Soziales Paradies oder Stasi-Staat? Das DDR-Bild von
Schülern - Ein Ost-West-Vergleich. Stamsried 2008.