Abstract
Abstract This paper offers a critical reflection on an excursion with Year-8 students seeking traces of colonialism in Munich together with a local postcolonial grass-roots initiative. It was part of a teaching unit on German colonial history, which was conducted in a Year-8 history class at a high school (Gymnasium) in Munich. After an introduction to the history and the work of postcolonial civic initiatives in Germany, which try to start public debates on the legacy of colonialism in urban spaces, the article outlines key ideas of postcolonial theory. In the main part the paper evaluates the teaching unit and the concluding ›postcolonial walking tour‹ developed by the postcolonial initiative »[muc] munchen postkolonial« from the point of view of history didactics. The last section of the article raises the question whether the design of the teaching unit represents a distinct ›postcolonial approach‹. The paper ends with a general assessment of possible impulses and insights history didactics can gain f...
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