The historical roots of antisemitism : implications for the classroom

  • How the eternal questions about 'what it means to be human' translate in and trough the Holocaust, especially in the light of the long-range cause of anti-Semitism? The kind of teaching history in Holocaust education which honors history as process should enable students to grasp the time-bound nature of causation. G. Wegner examines different curricula on Holocaust education for secondary schools. They vary significantly in their contextualization of anti-Semitism as a long-range cause for the Holocaust.

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Author:Gregory Wegner
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-5475
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/691
Parent Title (English):Information: International Society for History Didactics
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1999
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2008/06/06
Tag:anti-Semitism; Holocaust education; contextualization; history curriculum
Volume:20
Issue:2
First Page:119
Last Page:131
Institutes:Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:Universität Augsburg / Informations / Mitteilungen / Communications - Herausgeber: International Society for History Didactics / Information 02/1999 / The historical roots of antisemitism : implications for the classroom (Wegner, Gregory)