Teaching the Holocaust in School History
Subtitle: Teachers or Preachers? (Continuum Studies in Education)
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: October 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780826490827
Subjects: Secondary schools; Teaching of a specific subject; Teaching skills & techniques; The Holocaust; General; Education; Education / Teaching; Great Britain; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Study and teaching (Secondary)
Description: "If we expose students to a study of human suffering, we have a responsibility to guide them through it. But is this the role of school history? Is the rationale behind teaching the Holocaust primarily historical, moral or social? Is the Holocaust to be taught as a historical event, with a view to developing students' critical historical skills, or as a tool to combat continuing prejudice and discrimination? These profound questions lie at the heart of Lucy Russell's fascinating analysis of Teaching the Holocaust in school history. She considers how the topic of the Holocaust is currently being taught in schools in the UK and overseas. Drawing on interviews with educationalists, academics and teachers, she discovers that there is in fact a surprising lack of consensus regarding the purpose of, and approaches to, teaching the Holocaust in history. Indeed the majority view is distinctly non-historical; there is a tendency to teach the Holocaust from a social and moral perspective and not as history. This book attempts to explain and debate this phenomenon."--Page 4 of cover.