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Teaching the Holocaust in School History: Teachers or Preachers

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Full Title:

Teaching the Holocaust in School History: Teachers or Preachers

Contributors:

By (Author) Dr Lucy Russell

ISBN:

9780826499073

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Publication Date:

1st June 2008

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Teaching skills and techniques
Secondary schools
The Holocaust
Second World War
European history

Dewey:

373.1102

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

176

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

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 This issue 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' critcal 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.

Reviews

Title mentioned by author, Lucy Russell, in an article in The Independent [Postgraduate], Thursday 14th February 2008.
Mention -Book News, February 2009

Author Bio

Lucy Russell is Lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Prior to that she was a History teacher at a school in Kent, UK. Dr Lucy Russell taught at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, until the birth of her first child in 2006. She is the author of two education titles (both published by Continuum) and a regular contributor to the Church press.

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