Essentials of Holocaust Education

Fundamental Issues and Approaches

Samuel Totten, Stephen Feinberg, Samuel Totten, Stephen Feinberg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317648079
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches is a comprehensive guide for pre- and in-service educators preparing to teach about this watershed event in human history. An original collection of essays by Holocaust scholars, teacher educators, and classroom teachers, it covers a full range of issues relating to Holocaust education, with the goal of helping teachers to help students gain a deep and thorough understanding of why and how the Holocaust was perpetrated. Both conceptual and pragmatic, it delineates key rationales for teaching the Holocaust, provides useful historical background information for teachers, and offers a wide array of practical approaches for teaching about the Holocaust. Various chapters address teaching with film and literature, incorporating the use of primary accounts into a study of the Holocaust, using technology to teach the Holocaust, and gearing the content and instructional approaches and strategies to age-appropriate audiences. A ground-breaking and highly original book, Essentials of Holocaust Education will help teachers engage students in a study of the Holocaust that is compelling, thought-provoking, and reflective

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: Teaching and Studying About the Holocaust This Time?
• Introduction
• 1 Foundational Concerns: Developing Historically Accurate and Pedagogically Sound Holocaust Lessons and Units
• 2 Key Themes in Holocaust History
• 3 Myths and Misconceptions About the Holocaust
• 4 Teaching and Studying the Holocaust: Curricular Issues, Teaching Strategies, and Learning Activities
• 5 The Use of the Internet in Teaching and Studying About the Holocaust
• 6 Encountering the Holocaust Through Primary Documents
• 7 A Reflection on the Use of Iconic Holocaust Resources
• 8 Incorporating Literature Into a Study of the Holocaust
• 9 Incorporating Film Into a Study of the Holocaust
• 10 A Radical Innovation: Examining the Holocaust Through the Prism of Story
• 11 What About “Other” Genocides? An Educator’s Dilemma or an Educator’s Opportunity?
• Holocaust Chronology 1933–1946: From Power to Punishment
• About the Contributors
• Index