Entrelazamientos interamericanos en la enseñanza REFLEXIONES CONCEPTUALES

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 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.