1st Edition
Holocaust Education 25 Years On Challenges, Issues, Opportunities
Introduction - Holocaust education 25 years on: challenges, issues, opportunities 1. The Holocaust in the National Curriculum after 25 years 2. Why teach or learn about the Holocaust? Teaching aims and student knowledge in English secondary schools 3. Understanding what young people know: methodological and theoretical challenges in researching young people’s knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust 4. Portrayals of the Holocaust in English history textbooks, 1991–2016: continuities, challenges and concerns 5. Britain’s promise to forget: some historiographical reflections on What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust? 6. The Holocaust in the British imagination: the official mind and beyond, 1945 to the present 7. A critical assessment of a landmark study 8. Teaching the Holocaust and National Socialism in Austria: politics of memory, history classes, and empirical insights 9. Learning and teaching about the Shoah: retrospect and prospect
Biography
Andy Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and History Education at University College London, UK. He is the author of Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain (Routledge, 2014) and the editor of Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings (Routledge, 2018). He has collaborated with numerous institutions and provided consultancy for the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission.
Arthur Chapman is Senior Lecturer in History Education at University College London, UK, where he researches history in education and Holocaust education. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Historical Association, a member of the editorial board of the Curriculum Journal, a series editor of the International Review of History Education, and an associate editor of the London Review of Education.
