1st Edition

Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings

Edited By Andy Pearce Copyright 2018
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings brings together a group of international experts to investigate the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and different types of educational activity through consideration of how education has become charged with preserving and perpetuating Holocaust memory and an examination of the challenges and opportunities this presents. The book is... Read more

Series editors’ foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Education, remembrance, and the Holocaust: towards pedagogic memory-work Part I: Issues, approaches, spaces 1. Lessons at the limits: on learning Holocaust history in historical culture 2. The anatomy of a relationship: the Holocaust, genocide, and education in Britain 3. Väterliteratur: remembering, writing, and reconciling the familial past 4. Memories of survivors in Holocaust education 5. Figures of memory at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 6. Imperial War Museums: reflecting and shaping Holocaust memory 7. Beyond learning facts: teaching commemoration as an educational task in German memorial sites for the victims of National Socialist crimes Part II: National perspectives, contexts, and case studies 8. Hitler as a figure of ignorance in young people's incidental accounts of the Holocaust in Germany 9. Who was the victim and who was the saviour? The Holocaust in Polish identity narratives 10. Conveying the message of Holocaust survivors: Shoah remembrance and education in Israel 11. Holocaust education in the US: a pre-history, 1939–1960 12. The Presence of the past: creating a new Holocaust and Genocide Centre of Education and Memory in post-Apartheid South Africa 13. Educational bridges to the intangible: an Australian perspective to teaching and learning about the Holocaust 14. Myths, misconceptions, and mis-memory: Holocaust education in England

Biography

Andy Pearce is a Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and History Education at University College London. His research interests include education, memory studies, Holocaust studies, and contemporary European history. His recent works include Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain (Routledge, 2014).