Full Description
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
Contents
Foreword: John Roth
Introduction: Samuel Totten and Stephen Feinberg
1. Developing a Historically Accurate and Pedagogically Sound Holocaust Education Program: Foundational Concerns by Samuel Totten and
Stephen Feinberg
2. The Holocaust in History by Doris Bergen
3. Myths and Misconceptions About the Holocaust by William Meinecke
4. Literature and the Holocaust by Colleen Tambuscio and Kim Klett
5. Film and the Holocaust by Lawrence Baron
6. Teaching and Studying the Holocaust: Curricular Issues, Teaching Strategies, and Learning Activities by Samuel Totten and Stephen Feinberg
7. Incorporating Primary Documents into a Study of the Holocaust byWolf Kaiser
8. The Use of the Internet in Teaching and Studying About the Holocaust by David Klevan and Margaret Lincoln
9. Iconic Literary Works of the Holocaust: Issues and Concerns by Elaine Culbertson
10. A Radical Innovation: Examining the Structure of the Holocaust Curriculum Through the Prism of Story by Karen Shawn
11. What About "Other" Genocides? An Educator's Dilemma or an Educator's Opportunity? By Samuel Totten
Chronology of the Holocaust by Stephen Feinberg
