What do we know about teaching the Holocaust?
What can we say based on empirical research about the current situation of Holocaust education in both Europe, Israel, Latin America and the USA?
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s Education Research Project Steering Committee, and The Center for History Teaching & Learning and Recalling the Past CHR at the University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland are pleased to announce the:
International Research Conference on Education about the Holocaust
Date: (14), 15, 16 (and 17) February 2016
Place: University of Teacher Education Lucerne (PH Luzern), Switzerland
The conference is the concluding event of IHRA's Education Research Project, of which Senior Researcher and Head of the Danish Delegation to IHRA, Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, is a member. The Project aims to provide an overview and a mapping of knowledge coming out of empirical research studies about teaching and learning about the Holocaust. The goal has been to establish what can really be stated from empirical research about the current state of Holocaust education, taking us beyond anecdotal experiences and programmatic texts, in order to identify the key challenges and opportunities.
A multilingual expert team has collected existing research in over ten languages, and undertaken a scholarly, critical review of a selected number of studies carried out in the field of Holocaust education. This multilingual aspect is a crucial dimension; it allows knowledge transfer and discussion between various regions and countries, as a cross-language and cross–cultural initiative.
The final conference of this project aims to discuss the findings among educators, researchers, academics, educational experts, educational decision makers, NGOs, diplomats, and funding organizations, and to bring together these different groups in order to design the new directions and strategic approaches needed to further Holocaust education.
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