What do students know and understand about the Holocaust? Evidence from English secondary schools

SJ Foster, A Pettigrew, AR Pearce, R Hale, A Burgess… - 2016 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This research report has been written under the auspices of the University College London
(UCL) Centre for Holocaust Education. The Centre is part of the UCL Institute of Education …

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: A Blessing or Curse for Holocaust Education?

M Gray - Holocaust Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This essay analyses the effectiveness of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as a pedagogic tool
in Holocaust education. Drawing upon an empirical study conducted on 298 students' …

Understanding what young people know: methodological and theoretical challenges in researching young people's knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust

A Chapman, R Hale - Holocaust Education 25 Years On, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This article draws on research into young people's knowledge and understanding of the
Holocaust conducted by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education (CfHE). Two questions are …

Public opinion about comparisons to the Holocaust

K Bischoping, A Kalmin - Public Opinion Quarterly, 1999 - JSTOR
Holocaust and genocide researchers are engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the
uniqueness of the Holocaust and the appropriateness of comparing this event to others …

Measuring Holocaust knowledge and its impact: A Canadian case study

J Jedwab - Prospects, 2010 - Springer
This article examines the responses of some 1,500 Canadians to a public opinion survey on
knowledge of the Holocaust, awareness of genocide, and attitudes towards discrimination …

Holocaust Education: An investigation into the types of learning that take place when students encounter the Holocaust

A Richardson - 2012 - bura.brunel.ac.uk
This study employs qualitative methods to investigate the types of learning that occurred
when students in a single school encountered the Holocaust. The study explored the …

Ukrainian high school students' understanding of the Holocaust

E Ivanova - Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2004 - academic.oup.com
What students know about the Holocaust has been the subject of numerous studies, based
mainly on quantitative surveys. This article relies on qualitative methods, in particular …

'It made me think how I should treat others and how I should help people who need it': The complexities of exploring the impact of Holocaust education

R Hale - Oxford Review of Education, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
It is generally agreed that learning about the Holocaust has some impact on students.
However, discussions about the nature and magnitude of impact tend to be intuition-based …

Exploring pupil perceptions of Jews, Jewish identity and the Holocaust

M Gray - Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper argues that effective Holocaust education involves exploring pupils' perceptions
of Jews and Jewish identity. Identifying these preconceptions is necessary for combatting …

Affective historiography: Schindler's List, melodrama and historical representation

J Maron - Shofar, 2009 - JSTOR
With Hayden White's notion of the" content of the form" of narrative as a starting point, this
article argues that the melodramatic form of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) …