As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum, Policy and Practice

This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world approaches the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point as the generations that witnes...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gross, Zehavit. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Stevick, E. Doyle. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15419-0
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Mmantsetsa Marope, Director, UNESCO IBE
  • Editors’ notes and acknowledgements
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Holocaust education in the 21st century: Curriculum, policy and practice.  E. Doyle Stevick and Zehavit Gross
  • Part II: Framing the issues for a new millennium
  • Address to the German Bundestag, 27 January 2000. Elie Wiesel
  • “Why does the way of the wicked prosper?” Teaching the Holocaust in the land of Jim Crow: Ted Rosengarten
  • Is teaching and learning about the Holocaust relevant for human rights education? Monique Eckmann
  • Shoah, antisemitism, war and genocide: Text and context. Yehuda Bauer
  • Learning from eyewitnesses: Examining the history and future of personal encounters with Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters. Dienke Hondius
  • Teaching about and teaching through the Holocaust: Insights from (social) psychology. Barry van Driel
  • Part III Reckoning with the Holocaust in Israel, Germany and Poland
  • Between involuntary and voluntary memories: A case study of Holocaust education in Israel. Zehavit Gross
  • Domesticating the difficult past: Polish students narrate the Second World War. Magdalena Gross.-  Mind the gap: Holocaust education in Germany, between pedagogical intentions and classroom interactions. Wolfgang Meseth and Matthias Proske
  • Part IV  Holocaust education in diverse classrooms
  • Holocaust education and critical citizenship in an American fifth grade: Expanding repertoires of meanings, language and action. Louise B. Jennings
  • “They think it is funny to call us Nazis”: Holocaust education and multicultural education in a diverse Germany. Debora Hinderliter Ortloff
  • Genocide or Holocaust education: Exploring different Australian approaches for Muslim school children. Suzanne D. Rutland
  • Part V: International dynamics, global trends and comparative research in Holocaust education. A global mapping of the Holocaust in textbooks and curricula. Peter Carrier, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Torben Messinger
  • International organisations in the globalisation of Holocaust education. Karel Fracapane
  • Compliant policy and multiple meanings: Conflicting Holocaust discourses in Estonia. E. Doyle Stevick
  • The Holocaust as history and human rights: A cross-national analysis of Holocaust education in social science textbooks, 1970–2008. Patricia Bromley and Susan Garnett Russell
  • Measuring Holocaust knowledge and its relationship to attitudes towards diversity in Spain, Canada, Germany and the United States. Jack Jedwab
  • Part VI  Holocaust education in national and regional contexts
  • Holocaust history, memory and citizenship education: The case of Latvia. Tom Misco
  • Mastering the past? Nazism and the Holocaust in West German history textbooks of the 1960s. Brian Puaca
  • Informed pedagogy on the Holocaust: A survey of educators trained by leading Holocaust organizations in the United States. Corey Harbaugh
  • "Unless they have to": Power, politics and institutional hierarchy in Lithuanian Holocaust education. Christine Beresniova
  •  Holocaust education in Austria: A (hi)story of complexity and prospects for the future. Herbert Bastel, Christian Matzka, and Helene Miklas
  • “Thanks to Scandinavia” and beyond: Nordic Holocaust education in the 21st century. Fred Dervin.-  Holocaust education in Scotland: Taking the lead or falling behind? Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles
  • Part VII To know, to remember, to act
  • Failing to learn from the Holocaust. Geoffrey Short
  • Towards a new theory of Holocaust remembrance in Germany: Education, preventing antisemitism and advancing human rights. Reinhold Boschki, Bettina Reichmann, and Wilhelm Schwendemann
  • Epistemological aspects of Holocaust education: Between ideologies and  interpretations. Zehavit Gross and Doyle Stevick
  • Notes on contributors.  .