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

Abstract

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. .