Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education

P.A.C. de Bruijn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8

Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education

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Abstract

This chapter reflects on the tension between aims of stimulating knowledge, remembrance and moral development that are often ascribed to Holocaust education, through an analysis of the educational resources for primary education of the Westerbork Memorial Centre and the Junior Resistance Museum in the Netherlands. Using an analytical framework on the effects of different narrative and display strategies, De Bruijn identifies the various ways in which these resources foster emotional and moral engagement, and how that impacts the opportunities for acquainting pupils with multiple perspectives. He argues that it would be useful to encourage pupils to study processes of cultural memory in order for Holocaust education to contribute both to a stronger knowledge of this history and to skills of democratic citizenship.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
Subtitle of host publication	Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward
Editors	Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan, James Griffiths
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Pages	129-144
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319730998
ISBN (Print)	9783319730981
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Series	The Holocaust and its Contexts

Keywords

Holocaust education
democratic citizenship
emotional engagement
heritage learning
moral values
multiperspectivity

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de Bruijn, P. A. C. (2018). Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education. In C.-C. W. Szejnmann, P. Cowan, & J. Griffiths (Eds.), Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (pp. 129-144). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8

de Bruijn, P.A.C. / Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement : The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education. Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. editor / Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann ; Paula Cowan ; James Griffiths. London : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2018. pp. 129-144 (The Holocaust and its Contexts).

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de Bruijn, PAC 2018, Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education. in C-CW Szejnmann, P Cowan & J Griffiths (eds), Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London, The Holocaust and its Contexts, pp. 129-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8

Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education. / de Bruijn, P.A.C.
Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. ed. / Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann; Paula Cowan; James Griffiths. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2018. p. 129-144 (The Holocaust and its Contexts).

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de Bruijn PAC. Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education. In Szejnmann CCW, Cowan P, Griffiths J, editors, Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2018. p. 129-144. (The Holocaust and its Contexts). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8

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