Global historical approaches plead for the overcoming of national historical traditions. This
goes hand in hand with the demand to consciously reflect the long suppressed category of space
in historical research. While there are signs of amending within the scientific landscape in
this respect a national narrative continues to dominate in history education. Not only at the
curricular level but also in the planning of teaching units and in teaching materials. The
demand for de-centering historical learning provides ideas on how to promote globally
networked thinking in the classroom with a view at history education in Germany. Table of
Contents Preamble
....................................................................................... 1 1.
Introductory Remarks .......................................................... 3 2. Between
Theory and Practice ............................................. 92.1. The Series of Teaching
Materials'Knowledge of Global Entanglements' ................................ 92.2. Thinking
Space Time and the Social Altogether ............... 15 3. Creating Knowledge of Global
Entanglements .................. 253.1. Why Global Education in History Education?
................... 253.2. Boom of Global History
...................................................... 313.3. Historical Awareness of Space
........................................... 333.4. Alterity Experience in Historical Learning
......................... 36 4. Learning about Ourselves
................................................... 384.1. The National Tunnel Vision in
History Education ............. 384.2. Consequences of aNostrocentric Historical Consciousness
.................................................... 40 5. Impulses for the De-Centering of
History Education ......... 455.1. Turning Away from Methodological Nationalism .............
465.2. Overcoming Eurocentrism .................................................. 515.3.
De-Centering the Curriculum .............................................. 555.4. A View from
Latin America ............................................... 60 6. Concluding Remarks
........................................................... 70 Works Cited
................................................................................. 72
