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

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 d...

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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.
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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.