Teaching the Holocaust in School History Teachers or Preachers?

by Russell, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9780826499073
• ISBN10: 0826499074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dr Lucy Russell teaches in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Chronology of the topic of the Holocaust in the National Curriculum	p. ix
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xviii
Introduction: what is important about teaching the Holocaust in school history?	p. 1
History teachers on teaching the Holocaust	p. 17
What was 'the Holocaust'?	p. 45
Teaching the Holocaust before 1991	p. 62
The question of whether the Holocaust should be compulsory in school history	p. 89
Teaching the Holocaust in school history since 1991	p. 107
Conclusion: implications for the future	p. 130
Notes	p. 138
Bibliography	p. 144
Index	p. 150
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