Henning Hues

studied education and ethnology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. His research and study trips included stays at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of the Netherlands Antilles. His studies focused mainly on South Africa and its education system. He completed his studies with an empirical MA thesis dealing with the school system of the Afrikaner separatist settlement Orania. In 2006, he spent three months doing fieldwork there, where he explored special forms of solidarity which developed in the scope of everyday schooling, as well as the tendency to disregard the marking and quality rating system. From 2006 until 2008, Mr Hues held a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, since 2009 he holds a PhD scholarship of the same foundation.

Since 2009, Mr Hues has been working on his PhD dissertation in the work area ‘Textbooks and Conflict’ at the Georg Eckert Institute. His dissertation, which is being supervised by Prof. Fuchs, is about the way in which school teaching in South Africa currently deals with the history of apartheid. It focuses on the way in which social discourse about reconciliation and memory in the 1990s is reflected in classrooms, and explores possibilities for a reconciliatory curriculum. The study will involve several ethnographical fieldtrips to South Africa.

Publications

• "Mandela, the Terrorist. Intended and hidden history curriculum in South Africa", in: Journal for Educational Media, Memory and Society, Vol. 3 (2) 2011 (forthcoming).
• "The raising of the flag in ‘Volkstaat’ Orania: Perspectives on a school ceremony", in: Education as Change, Vol. 14 (1) 2010, p. 33–46 (with Katalin Morgan).

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