---
_id: '67664'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'This article asks how students interpret objectivations of historical culture
    and how far data collection settings pre-structure observable interpretive action.
    Drawing on cultural semiotics, historical culture is conceptualised as a sign
    system where meaning emerges relationally between sign-carriers and recipients’
    reference concepts; the research setting is treated as part of the semiosis under
    study. Using the documentary method, group discussions with students from various
    school types are analysed in two settings: sequential discussions of three objectivations
    (Hermann Monument, Maurizio Cattelan''s sculpture Him (2001), TikTok search results)
    and of ten photographic icons, varied through wildcards, reasoned selection and
    Instagram comments. Four groups serve as illustrative cases. Across groups, a
    shared sequence of interpretive operations emerges (activating knowledge, naming,
    contextualising, interpreting elements, evaluating morally), whose depth and reflexivity
    differ. The article contributes a semiotic vocabulary for students’ participation
    in historical culture and proposes deliberate variation of elicitation settings
    as a heuristic data source. All findings are exploratory hypotheses.'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Olaf
  full_name: Hartung, Olaf
  id: '79451'
  last_name: Hartung
  orcid: 0009-0007-8673-250X
- first_name: Fabian
  full_name: Grauthoff, Fabian
  id: '79742'
  last_name: Grauthoff
citation:
  ama: 'Hartung O, Grauthoff F. Students interpret historical culture: Insights from
    two data collection settings in an exploratory design. <i>Historisches Denken,
    Kultur und Bildung (HTCE)</i>. 4(1).'
  apa: 'Hartung, O., &#38; Grauthoff, F. (n.d.). Students interpret historical culture:
    Insights from two data collection settings in an exploratory design. <i>Historisches
    Denken, Kultur Und Bildung (HTCE)</i>, <i>4</i>(1).'
  bibtex: '@article{Hartung_Grauthoff, title={Students interpret historical culture:
    Insights from two data collection settings in an exploratory design}, volume={4},
    number={1}, journal={Historisches Denken, Kultur und Bildung (HTCE)}, author={Hartung,
    Olaf and Grauthoff, Fabian} }'
  chicago: 'Hartung, Olaf, and Fabian Grauthoff. “Students Interpret Historical Culture:
    Insights from Two Data Collection Settings in an Exploratory Design.” <i>Historisches
    Denken, Kultur Und Bildung (HTCE)</i> 4, no. 1 (n.d.).'
  ieee: 'O. Hartung and F. Grauthoff, “Students interpret historical culture: Insights
    from two data collection settings in an exploratory design,” <i>Historisches Denken,
    Kultur und Bildung (HTCE)</i>, vol. 4, no. 1.'
  mla: 'Hartung, Olaf, and Fabian Grauthoff. “Students Interpret Historical Culture:
    Insights from Two Data Collection Settings in an Exploratory Design.” <i>Historisches
    Denken, Kultur Und Bildung (HTCE)</i>, vol. 4, no. 1.'
  short: O. Hartung, F. Grauthoff, Historisches Denken, Kultur Und Bildung (HTCE)
    4 (n.d.).
date_created: 2026-10-27T09:41:40Z
date_updated: 2026-10-27T09:51:33Z
department:
- _id: '6'
- _id: '444'
intvolume: '         4'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Historical culture
- history education
- cultural semiotics
- empirical learning research
- documentary method
language:
- iso: eng
project:
- _id: '2704'
  name: „Die Zeichen der Zeiten deuten lernen“ (Zeidel) – Kultursemiotisch perspektiviertes
    Deutungslernen in einer kontroversen Geschichtskultur empirisch erforschen
publication: Historisches Denken, Kultur und Bildung (HTCE)
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 3042-478X
publication_status: accepted
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Students interpret historical culture: Insights from two data collection settings
  in an exploratory design'
type: journal_article
user_id: '79451'
volume: 4
year: '2027'
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