The Touch of the Past Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics

by Simon, Roger I.

• ISBN13: 9781403967473
• ISBN10: 1403967474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Based on ten years of research, The Touch of the Past considers how historically traumatic events uniquely summon forgetting and remembrance. Within a specific focus on events of systemic mass violence, Roger Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning as communities struggle with "difficult histories." The Touch of the Past is a serious and compelling contribution to research in education, historical consciousness, and memory/trauma studies.

Author Biography

Roger I. Simon is Professor of Culture, Communications and Critical Education. He is Director, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Credits	x
Introduction Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory	1	(13)
One The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary	14	(18)
Two Pedagogy and the Call to Witnessing Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion	32	(18)
Three Remembering Obligation: Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma with Claudia Eppert	50	(15)
Four Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Remembering and Learning from the Montreal Massacre with Sharon Rosenberg	65	(22)
Five The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory	87	(17)
Six Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony with Claudia Eppert, Mark Clamen, and Laura Beres	104	(28)
Seven Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Interhuman with Mario Di Paolantonio and Mark Clamen	132	(24)
Eight The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony	156	(17)
Notes	173	(9)
References	182	(7)
Index	189