Holocaust education : : contemporary challenges and controversies / / edited by Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, Alice Pettigrew.

• TeilnehmendeR: Foster, Stuart J., 1960-; Pearce, Andy, 1981-; Pettigrew, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Teaching and learning about the Holocaust is central to school curriculums in many parts of the world. As a field for discourse and a body of practice, it is rich, multidimensional and innovative. But the history of the Holocaust is complex and challenging, and can render teaching it a complex and daunting area of work. Drawing on landmark research into teaching practices and students' knowledge in English secondary schools, Holocaust Education: Contemporary challenges and controversies provides important knowledge about and insights into classroom teaching and learning. It sheds light on key challenges in Holocaust education, including the impact of misconceptions and misinformation, the dilemmas of using atrocity images in the classroom, and teaching in ethnically diverse environments. Overviews of the most significant debates in Holocaust education provide wider context for the classroom evidence, and contribute to a book that will act as a guide through some of the most vexed areas of Holocaust pedagogy for teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policymakers.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Challenges, issues and controversies: The shapes of 'Holocaust education' in the early twenty-first century -- 2. To what extent does the acquisition of historical knowledge really matter when studying the Holocaust? -- 3. Learning the lessons of the Holocaust: A critical exploration -- 4. 'They were just following orders': Relationships between Milgram's obedience experiments and conceptions of Holocaust perpetration 5. Look before you leap: Teaching about the Holocaust in primary schools -- 6. British Responses to the Holocaust: Student and teacher perspectives on the development of a new classroom resource -- 7. 'I know it's not really true, but it might just tell us . . .': The troubled relationship between The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and understanding about the Holocaust -- 8. Antisemitism and Holocaust education -- 9. Muslim students and the Holocaust in England's secondary schools: 'Reluctant learners' or constructed controversies? 10. Seeing things differently: The use of atrocity images in teaching about the Holocaust -- Index.