L’enseignement de l’histoire de l’Holocauste2 et l’éducation aux droits humains : pratiques et enjeux au Québec

Abstract

This article focuses on the twinning of history teaching and human rights education. The case of the Holocaust illustrates the possibilities and limits of such a relationship, in light of the practices implemented in history and citizenship education classes in Quebec. Organized around four axes of analysis, the results show that teaching practices privilege above all an awareness to the human rights and are therefore centered on the knowledge of the rights. Similarly, the teaching of the Holocaust focuses on the Nazi efforts to persecute Jews without explicit references to human rights issues, which is how the curriculum prescribes it. Both subjects are therefore studied separately in the same sequence.