“I’ve always not been a racist”: do we need to reconsider teaching and learning about the Holocaust?

Sylwia Holmes

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    Abstract

    In popular, political and even educational discourse, it has become commonplace to assert that it is crucially important for young people to learn about the Holocaust as an intervention against today’s racism and prejudice. But in a focus group interview exploring secondary school students’ attitudes towards encountering this history, Ella, a Year 12 student, turned that idea on its head.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)21-25
    Number of pages5
    JournalRace Equality Teaching
    Volume34
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2016

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    Keywords

    • Holocaust
    • education
    • history
    • prejudice

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