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 (with Steffen Barth): The German Empire. Life in a Time of Upheaval, in: Geschichte lernen 195 (2020), pp. 2–8
• Dietmar von Reeken: (with Malte Thießen): Between War and Peace. Concepts of Order and Attempts at Order 1918–1923, in: Geschichte lernen 186 (2018), pp. 2–9
• Dietmar von Reeken: Primary sources in the classroom – criminally ignored and underestimated? In: LaG-Magazin, 31 January 2018: lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/13863
• Dietmar von Reeken: (with Malte Thießen) Islamic Worlds. Societal 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, pp. 2–7
• Dietmar von Reeken: Living Through a Crisis – Learning from a Crisis? Crises as a Subject of Study and an Opportunity for Learning in History Lessons, in: Hans-Hermann Precht (ed.): Economic Crises of 1929 and 2009. Forum Nordwolle Delmenhorst (= Series of the Scientific Advisory Board at the North-West German Museum of Industrial Culture, Vol. 2), Berlin: CULTURCON medien 2015, pp. 103–111
• Dietmar von Reeken: On the significance of nature for human societies – a brief introduction to environmental history, in: Dietmar von Reeken, Indre Döpcke, Britta Wehen-Behrens (eds.): Teaching and learning environmental history. No Disaster! Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau 2015, pp. 8–15
• Dietmar von Reeken: Artefacts and Museum Displays (revised edition), in: Hilke Günther-Arndt, Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting (eds.): History Didactics. A Practical Handbook for Lower and Upper Secondary Education. 6th, revised edition, Berlin 2014, pp. 144–157
• Dietmar von Reeken: Intercultural History Learning (revised edition), in: ibid., pp. 238–246
• Dietmar von Reeken: An Era Between Times. The Vormärz from a Historical and Didactic Perspective, in: Geschichte lernen 149, 2012, pp. 2–7
• Dietmar von Reeken: (with Edith Heger): ‘Interdisciplinary Teaching’ in Planning and Practice: ‘We’re Getting Involved’ (class of 7), in: Roland Hafen, Daniel Kleine Huster, Detlev Lindau-Bank (eds.): Discovering Connections and Understanding the Big Picture. 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: Contemporary History from a History Education Perspective, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik, 2008, pp. 94–11
• Dietmar von Reeken: “To get to the sources, you have to swim against the tide”. Historical sources in academia, culture and teaching, in: Ibid., Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist (eds.): Historical Sources. Building Bridges between Historical Research and History Education, Berlin 2008, pp. 11–19
• Dietmar von Reeken: “The most striking thing is, in fact, that one does not notice them. Monuments as tangible sources for history teaching”, in: Geschichte lernen 121, 2008, pp. 2–11
• Dietmar von Reeken:
• Working with Sources, in: Hilke Günther-Arndt (ed.): History Methodology. A Handbook for Secondary Levels I and II, Berlin: Cornelsen 2007, pp. 154–168
• Dietmar von Reeken: Working with Historical Narratives, in: ibid., pp. 169–173
• Dietmar von Reeken: Forms of Historical Narrative, in: ibid., pp. 260–272
• Dietmar von Reeken: ‘Are We What We Eat? Perspectives on the Didactics of Food History’, in: *Geschichte lernen* issue 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’? Fundamental issues and consequences of the Cold War, in: Geschichte lernen, issue 94/2003, pp. 18–25
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Bourgeoisie. Processes of Formation and Transformation in the Long 19th Century, in: Geschichte lernen, issue 92/2003, pp. 10–17
• Dietmar von Reeken: ‘The “Gute Stube” and “Cold Splendour”’. Bourgeois Living between Intimacy and Representation, in: Geschichte lernen, issue 92/2003, pp. 23–29
• Dietmar von Reeken: Tangible Sources and Museum Displays, in: Hilke Günther-Arndt (ed.), History Didactics. A Practical Handbook for Lower and Upper Secondary Education, Berlin: Cornelsen Scriptor 2003, pp. 137–150
• Dietmar von Reeken: Projects in History Teaching. Learning Opportunities in the Face of Current Challenges?, in: Thomas Hill, Karl Heinrich Pohl (eds.), Projects in Schools and Higher Education. The Example of History, Bielefeld 2002, pp. 66–73
• Dietmar von Reeken: One Country – Two Peoples? Israel – Palestine, in: *Geschichte lernen* issue 83/2001, pp. 18–25
• Dietmar von Reeken: ‘Schimanski – a German?’ Cultural Plurality in Germany’s Past and its Treatment in General Studies, in: *Sache Wort Zahl* No. 27/2000, pp. 42–47
• Dietmar von Reeken: Contributions on: the internet, buildings, CD-ROMs, monuments, films, young adult books, in: Lernbox Geschichte. The Methodology Handbook, Seelze/Velber: Friedrich Verlag 2000, pp. 18–20, 24ff., 30ff., 34–36, 39–43, 48–51
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Historical Children’s Book, in: Hans-Jürgen Pandel, Gerhard Schneider (eds.), Handbook of Media in History Teaching, 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 No. 7–8/1997, pp. 68–70
• Dietmar von Reeken: “Where, as a child, I used to walk through quiet village streets … machines now race past”. Industrialisation in Lower Saxony, in: Horst Kuss, Bernd Mütter (eds.), History of Lower Saxony – Rediscovered, Braunschweig: Westermann 1996 (Praxis Pädagogik), pp. 48–59
• Dietmar von Reeken: Modernisation and Pluralisation. The German Empire 1871–1918, in: Geschichte lernen No. 54, 1996, pp. 11–18
• Dietmar von Reeken: The Case of Frey the Bricklayer: A Story from the Early Days of the Welfare State, in: *Geschichte lernen* No. 54, 1996, pp. 25–27
• Dietmar von Reeken, Klaus Bulle; The Lahusen Family of Entrepreneurs: Bourgeoisie and Bourgeois Self-Representation, in: Geschichte lernen No. 54, 1996, pp. 59–66
• Dietmar von Reeken: ‘I Accuse’. Why Captain Dreyfus Was Sent to the Devil’s Islands, in: Geschichte lernen 6(1993), No. 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