Europe as argument, value, and promise? Western European perspectives on the history of Ukraine in history curricula and textbooks.

Autor/inn/en	Sammler, Steffen; Otto, Marcus
Titel	Europe as argument, value, and promise? Western European perspectives on the history of Ukraine in history curricula and textbooks.
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 75 (2026) 1, S. 65-83 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 82-83
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2701-0449
DOI	10.25627/202675111784
Schlagwörter	Bildungswesen; Curriculum; Schulbuch; Geschichtsunterricht; Europa; Ukraine; Westeuropa
Abstract	This article takes a comparative perspective on the question of how the history of Ukraine is represented in recent history textbooks of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK in a categorical relation to Europe. It analyzes which themes, concepts, and narratives of European history are formative for the representations of Ukraine and how the representations have changed since the 1990s. The article asks to what extent Europe is articulated as a historical-political argument, which values characterized as European are invoked, and to what extent Europe has ultimately become a genuine promise for Ukraine. It focuses on the following questions: What significance is ascribed to Ukraine's European past? With what specific values is such a European past of Ukraine associated, and to what extent does the reference to Europe function as a discursive resource? Which topics are associated with which value attributions, and which epochs are focused on? Finally, which spatial patterns and temporal narratives are used overall for the "European-ness" of Ukraine?
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2026/4