Network “Public History: Theory and Methodology of a New Sub-Discipline of History”

该网络第一次提供了关于公共历史作为德国科学界一个新的子学科的理论和方法论基础的系统交流。在这种方法中，我们遇到了一个重大的空白，因为公共历史大多被理解为“应用历史”，因此被视为（大多数）非毕业生的历史行为学方法。在汇集来自全国各地的学术公共历史学家，我们的目标是建立一个系统的专业话语，并激发和专业化的讨论，对未来的公共历史学家的学术教育。在总共六个研讨会，我们专注于指导术语，理论和方法，特别是关于公共历史的实证研究，被理解为历史科学的一个分支学科，作为学术教育的学科化和制度化，必须从跨学科和应用性的角度来理解和讨论。因此，该网络将历史学家、历史教学法和史前史、艺术史和考古学以及媒体科学专家联系起来。作为我们工作的结果，我们的目标是开发一本手册，系统化和反映公共历史的理论和方法，并将成为该领域的学生和公共历史学家的基础工作。

For the first time, the network provides a systematic communication about the theoretical and methodological foundation of public history as a new sub-discipline within the German scientific community. With that approach we meet a significant blank space because public history was mostly understood as “applied history” and was therefore regarded as a praxeological approach to history of (mostly) non-graduates. In bringing together academic public historians from all over the nation we aim to establish a systematic professional discourse and stimulate and professionalize discussions about the academic education of future public historians.In altogether six workshops we focus on guiding terms, theories and methods and particularly on empirical research of a public history understood as a sub-discipline of science of history that – in regarding its objects and institutionalization as academic education – has to be understood and discussed trans-disciplinary and application-oriented. Therefore the network connects historians, experts of history didactics and prehistory, art history and archaeology as well as media sciences. As a result of our work we aim to develop a handbook that systemizes and reflects on theories and methods of public history and will be a ground work for students and public historians in the field alike.