Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust Why Teach Holocaust
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Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust
Why Teach Holocaust History One of the most effective, and most extensively documented subjects for a pedagogical examination of basic moral issues
Rationale should fit your class • Why should students learn this history? • What are the most significant lessons to be learned? • Why is a particular resource appropriate? • What is the focus of your curriculum?
What can students learn? • Responsible Citizenship • Appreciation for democracy • Silence and indifference can perpetuate problems. • History doesn’t just “happen. ” It occurs because individuals, organizations, and governments made choices.
Ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping.
Dangers of apathy and indifference
Responsibility when others are being denied civil rights
Methodological Considerations
Age Appropriateness
Define the term “Holocaust” The state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims– 6 million were murdered; Gypsies, handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and homosexuals also suffered grievous oppression and death.
There are no simple answers
Avoid Comparisons of Pain
Avoid Generalizations
The Holocaust was not inevitable The Holocaust took place because individuals, groups, and nations made decisions to act or not to act.
Strive for precision of language • • • Prejudice and discrimination Collaborators and bystanders Armed and spiritual resistance Concentration camps and killing centers Guilt and responsibility
Make careful distinction about sources • • Fact, opinion, fiction Primary and secondary sources Court testimony, oral history Photographs
Avoid Stereotypical Descriptions • All experiences of Jews were not the same. • All Germans were not Nazis. • Although groups can share common experiences, generalization tend to stereotype group behavior.
Do not romanticize to engage student’s interest • The number of non-Jews who helped rescue Jews in a small fraction of the population. • Give a balanced perspective. • Do not use the worst aspects of human nature to hook your students, they will become desensitized.
How many is 6, 000
People not Statistics
If you were to live 6, 000 hours, how many years would you be alive? 685 Years
How many times would 9 -11 need to occur to equal 6, 000 deaths? Every day for 5. 8 years
Be Sensitive with visual and written content
Balance of Perspective
Appropriate Learning Activities
Why Remember?
- Guidelines for teaching about the holocaust
- Hey bye bye
- Lds parables
- If i could only teach you one thing
- Dont ask why why why
- Phases of microteaching
- Formuö
- Typiska novell drag
- Tack för att ni lyssnade bild
- Ekologiskt fotavtryck
- Shingelfrisyren
- En lathund för arbete med kontinuitetshantering
- Kassaregister ideell förening
- Vilotidsbok
- Sura för anatom
- Förklara densitet för barn
- Datorkunskap för nybörjare
- Tack för att ni lyssnade bild
- Debattartikel struktur
- För och nackdelar med firo
- Nyckelkompetenser för livslångt lärande
- Påbyggnader för flakfordon
- Arkimedes princip formel
- Publik sektor
- I gullregnens månad
- Presentera för publik crossboss
- Jiddisch
- Plats för toran ark
- Treserva lathund
- Fimbrietratt
- Bästa kameran för astrofoto
- Cks
- Programskede byggprocessen
- Mat för unga idrottare