´'¿Chachai Chile?' translates as "Do you know Chile?". The aim of the teaching modules is to convey the diversity of the country and its people as well as the different realities of life. A central aspect of this is the examination of historical interdependencies. Current conflicts, such as the student protests or the conflict between the Mapuche and the Chilean state, are also examined from a historical perspective. In addition, the debate about historical remembrance is a recurring theme throughout the portfolio.
Nicole Schwabe (Ed.)
Nicole Schwabe is a research assistant at the Centre for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University and coordinates the series of teaching materials Knowledge about Global Interdependencies, which is based there.
The project promotes an exchange between science, schools and extracurricular political education. Representatives from all three areas work together to create teaching materials on topics related to intercultural global learning. In this way, materials for school lessons are created on the pulse of research, which focus on global interdependencies with reference to the Americas (from Canada and the USA to Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America). The series is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the research project The Americas as an Interdependent Area.
Olaf Kaltmeier (Ed.)
Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor of Ibero-American History at the University of Bielefeld and Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He is co-spokesperson of the BMBF research project "The Americas as an Intertwined Space". His research focuses on Latin and inter-American history, social movements, ethnicity in historical change, environmental history and constellations of power and domination in the context of globalisation.
