Teaching the Holocaust in School History : Teachers or Preachers?.

Teaching the Holocaust in School History : Teachers or Preachers?.

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...

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Main Author: Russell, Lucy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching (Secondary) > Great Britain.
Education, Secondary
Great Britain
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Summary: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 cu.
Item Description:Vw; x; y.
Physical Description:1 online resource (175 pages)
ISBN:9781847142887
1847142885
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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