As a subject-specific didactics, history didactics is also a science of action, which is why in the discussion of scientific theory there is widespread talk of a triad of theory, empiricism and pragmatics as the focal points of history didactics research. For me, pragmatics is not about teaching "recipes", but about developing reflective, lesson-related concepts and materials based on the latest findings from specialised, didactic and learning theory research.

In my research practice, this happens in several ways:

1. in the reflection and development of individual innovative content and methods of historical learning (see publications on 1 below)
2. in the development of textbooks from primary school to upper secondary school (see publications on 2 below)
3. in the publication of the journal "Geschichte lernen" (see publications on 3 below)

This research will be continued in the coming years.

• Dietmar von Reeken (together with Steffen Barth): The German Empire. Life in a time of upheaval, in: Learning History 195 (2020), pp. 2-8
• Dietmar von Reeken: (together with Malte Thießen): Between war and peace. Ideas of order and attempts at order 1918-1923, in: Geschichte lernen 186 (2018), pp. 2-9
• Dietmar von Reeken: Factual sources in the classroom - criminally ignored and underestimated? In: LaG magazine from 31 January 2018: lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/13863
• Dietmar von Reeken: (with Malte Thießen) Islamic worlds. Social challenges, historical insights and didactic perspectives, in: Geschichte lernen 177, 2017, pp. 2-11
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Middle Ages in historical culture. Phenomena, causes and didactic perspectives, in: Geschichte lernen 170, 2016, p. 2-7
• Dietmar von Reeken: Living in the crisis - learning from the crisis? Crises as a learning object and learning occasion in history lessons, in: Hans-Hermann Precht (ed.): Wirtschaftskrisen 1929 und 2009. Forum Nordwolle Delmenhorst (= Schriftenreihe des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates im Nordwestdeutschen Museum für IndustrieKultur, vol. 2), Berlin: CULTURCON medien 2015, pp. 103-111
• Dietmar von Reeken: Über die Bedeutung der Natur für menschliche Gesellschaften - eine kurze Einführung in die Umweltgeschichte, in: Dietmar von Reeken, Indre Döpcke, Britta Wehen-Behrens (eds.): Umweltgeschichte lehren und lernen. No catastrophe! Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau 2015, pp. 8-15
• Dietmar von Reeken: Objective sources and museum displays (new edition), in: Hilke Günther-Arndt, Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting (eds.): Geschichts-Didaktik. Praxishandbuch für die Sekundarstufe I und II. 6th, revised new edition Berlin 2014, pp. 144-157
• Dietmar von Reeken: Intercultural history learning (new edition), in: ibid., pp. 238-246
• Dietmar von Reeken: An epoch between the times. The Vormärz from a historical and didactic perspective, in: Geschichte lernen 149, 2012, pp. 2-7
• Dietmar von Reeken: (together with Edith Heger): "Fächerverbindender Unterricht" in Planung und Praxis: "Wir mischen mit" (Jahrgang 7), in: Roland Hafen, Daniel Kleine Huster, Detlev Lindau-Bank (eds.): Zusammenhänge entdecken und das Ganze verstehen. Practical models of interdisciplinary teaching, Vechta 2010, pp. 91-109
• Dietmar von Reeken: Destruction or failure of a democracy? The final phase of the Weimar Republic, in: Geschichte lernen 127, 2009, pp. 2-11
• Dietmar von Reeken: The didactics of contemporary history, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik, 2008, pp. 94-11
• Dietmar von Reeken: "To get to the sources, you have to swim against the current". Geschichts-Quellen in Wissenschaft, Kultur und Unterricht, in: Ders., Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist (eds.): Geschichts-Quellen. Bridging the gap between historiography and history didactics, Berlin 2008, pp. 11-19
• Dietmar von Reeken: "The most striking thing is that you don't notice them. Monuments as representational sources for history lessons, in: Geschichte lernen 121, 2008, pp. 2-11
• Dietmar von Reeken:
• Quellenarbeit, in: Hilke Günther-Arndt (ed.): Geschichtsmethodik. Handbuch für die Sekundarstufe I und II, Berlin: Cornelsen 2007, pp. 154-168
• Dietmar von Reeken: Working with historical representations, in: ibid., pp. 169-173
• Dietmar von Reeken: Forms of progression, in: ibid., pp. 260-272
• Dietmar von Reeken: Is man what he eats? Perspectives on the didactics of food history, in: Geschichte lernen Heft 103 (2005), pp. 12-17
• Dietmar von Reeken: Exploration, in: sowi-online-methodenlexikon
• Dietmar von Reeken: Working with caricatures, in: sowi-online-methodenlexikon
• Dietmar von Reeken: Film analysis, film production, in: sowi-online-methodenlexikon
• Dietmar von Reeken: "Third World War" or "Long Peace"? Basic problems and consequences of the Cold War, in: Geschichte lernen Heft 94/2003, pp. 18-25
• Dietmar von Reeken: Citizenship. Formation and transformation processes in the long 19th century, in: Geschichte lernen Heft 92/2003, pp. 10-17
• Dietmar von Reeken: "Good parlour" and "cold splendour". Bourgeois living between intimacy and representation, in: Geschichte lernen Heft 92/2003, p. 23-29
• Dietmar von Reeken: Representational sources and museum displays, in: Hilke Günther-Arndt (ed.), Geschichts-Didaktik. Praxishandbuch für die Sekundarstufe I und II, Berlin: Cornelsen Scriptor 2003, pp. 137-150
• Dietmar von Reeken: Projects in history lessons. Learning opportunities in the face of current challenges? in: Thomas Hill, Karl Heinrich Pohl (eds.), Projekte in Schule und Hochschule. The example of history, Bielefeld 2002, pp. 66-73
• Dietmar von Reeken: One country - two peoples? Israel - Palestine, in: Geschichte lernen Heft 83/2001, pp. 18-25
• Dietmar von Reeken: Schimanski a German? Cultural plurality in the German past and its treatment in the classroom, in: Sache Wort Zahl 27/2000, pp. 42-47
• Dietmar von Reeken: Contributions to: Internet, buildings, CD-ROMs, monuments, films, books for young people, in: Lernbox Geschichte. Das Methodenbuch, Seelze/Velber: Friedrich Verlag 2000, pp. 18-20, 24f., 30f., 34-36, 39-43, 48-51
• Dietmar von Reeken: Das historische Jugendbuch, in: Hans-Jürgen Pandel, Gerhard Schneider (eds.), Handbuch Medien im Geschichtsunterricht, Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau 1999, pp. 69-83
• Dietmar and Silke von Reeken: The destruction of the Jewish cemetery in Diepholz. A project in primary school, in: Grundschule H. 7-8/1997, pp. 68-70
• Dietmar von Reeken: "Where I walked through quiet village streets as a child ... the machine is now roaring". Industrialisation in Lower Saxony, in: Horst Kuss, Bernd Mütter (eds.), Geschichte Niedersachsens - neu entdeckt, Braunschweig: Westermann 1996 (Praxis Pädagogik), pp. 48-59
• Dietmar von Reeken: Modernisation and Pluralisation. The German Empire 1871 - 1918, in: Geschichte lernen H. 54, 1996, pp. 11-18
• Dietmar von Reeken: The case of the bricklayer Frey: A fate from the beginnings of the welfare state, in: Geschichte lernen H. 54, 1996, pp. 25-27
• Dietmar von Reeken, Klaus Bulle; The Lahusen family of entrepreneurs. Bürgerlichkeit und bürgerliche Selbstdarstellung, in: Geschichte lernen H. 54, 1996, pp. 59-66
• Dietmar von Reeken: "I accuse". Why Captain Dreyfus had to go to the Devil's Islands, in: Geschichte lernen 6(1993), H. 34, pp. 45-51
• Dietmar von Reeken: Lower Saxony after 1945: Didactic commentary and teaching suggestions, published by the Lower Saxony State Centre for Political Education, Hanover 1995

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• Dietmar von Reeken (with Wolfgang Jäger): Flight, expulsion and resettlement in the context of the Second World War, Berlin: Cornelsen 2014 (= History course booklets)
• Dietmar von Reeken: History culture - modules for the upper school, Berlin: Cornelsen 2012 (= history course booklets)
• Dietmar von Reeken: Germany after 1945, Berlin: Cornelsen 2009 (= History course booklets)
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Weimar Republic. Politics and society in times of upheaval, Berlin: Cornelsen 2002 (= History course booklets)
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Weimar Republic. Politics and society in times of upheaval. Handbook for the classroom, Berlin: Cornelsen 2002 (= History course booklets)
• Dietmar von Reeken: Course planner: Nation state. Nationalismus und Nationalstaatsbildung im 19. Jahrhundert (= Geschichtsbuch Oberstufe Lehrerhandreichung), Berlin: Cornelsen 1998; largely also in: Geschichtsbuch Oberstufe. Handbook for the classroom. Volume 1, Berlin: Cornelsen 2000
• Dietmar von Reeken: Chapter 8: Menschen und ihr Alltag in der vorindustriellen Gesellschaft, in: Hilke Günther-Arndt et al. (ed.), Geschichtsbuch 2. Neue Ausgabe, Berlin: Cornelsen 1997, pp. 176-195
• Dietmar von Reeken: Chapters 7 and 8 in: Hilke Günther-Arndt, Dirk Hoffmann, Norbert Zwölfer (eds.), Geschichtsbuch Oberstufe. Bd. 1: von der Antike bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, Berlin: Cornelsen 1995, pp. 328-345 and 372-380 as well as chapter 1 in: Dies. (ed.), dass. Vol. 2: The 20th century, Berlin: Cornelsen 1996, pp. 38-51
• Specialist and didactic advice for the series: "Auer Sachbuch" for primary schools (already published: Vol. 1/2, 2003 and Vol. 3, 2004)

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• Learning history, issue 195 (2020): Life in the Empire (with Steffen Barth)
• Learning history, issue 186 (2018): Post-war orders 1918-1923 (with Malte Thießen)
• Learning History, Issue 177 (2017): Islamic worlds (with Malte Thießen)
• Geschichte lernen, issue 170 (2016): The Middle Ages in historical culture
• Geschichte lernen, issue 149 (2012): Vormärz
• Geschichte lernen, issue 127 (2009): End of the Weimar Republic
• Learning History, Issue 121 (2008): Monuments
• Learning History, Issue 103 (2005): Food
• Learning History, Issue 94 (2003): Cold War
• Learning History, Issue 92 (2003): Bourgeoisie
• Learning History, Issue 83 (2001): Israel-Palestine
• Learning History, Issue 71 (1999): Historical children's and youth literature
• Geschichte lernen, Issue 54 (1996): State and Society in the German Empire