'With these exhibits many interesting things can be learned about past times': Playmobil's History Class – representations, reflections and expectations. Issue 2 (20th October 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'With these exhibits many interesting things can be learned about past times': Playmobil's History Class – representations, reflections and expectations. Issue 2 (20th October 2020)
- Main Title:
- 'With these exhibits many interesting things can be learned about past times': Playmobil's History Class – representations, reflections and expectations
- Authors:
- Barsch, Sebastian
Mathis, Christian - Abstract:
- Abstract : page_151 other In 2018, the toy manufacturer Playmobil launched a 'History Class' as an addition to its 'Furnished School Building'. The materiality of this toy, and the selection of teaching media represented in coloured plastic (a blackboard with timeline, magnifying glass, parchment roll, stone axe, posters and other sources), convey an idea of history education based on hands-on learning, a variety of methods, original encounters and work with historical sources. This paper presents results of an international research project in which 12 children in Germany and Switzerland were interviewed with the help of this toy as a stimulus. The aim was to find out to what extent children are able to deconstruct the toy as a historical-cultural product. In addition, the interviews were intended to grasp the children's views on the ideal teaching of history. The data are evaluated using grounded theory methodology. The results show that the pupils express clear wishes as to how history teaching should be structured. A critical distance to the toy was not taken.
- Is Part Of:
- History education research journal. Volume 17:Issue 2(2020)
- Journal:
- History education research journal
- Issue:
- Volume 17:Issue 2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 17, Issue 2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0017-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 151
- Page End:
- 163
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-20
- Subjects:
- material culture -- toys -- historical reasoning -- historical culture -- primary school
History -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals
History -- Research -- Periodicals
907 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ioep/herj ↗
https://www.ucl-ioe-press.com/journals/herj ↗
https://www.history.org.uk/publications/categories/international-journal-of-historical-learning/ ↗
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/history-education-research-journal ↗ - DOI:
- 10.14324/HERJ.17.2.02 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2631-9713
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