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Author Polgar, Michael, author

Title Holocaust and human rights education : good choices and sociological perspectives / by Michael Polgar
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019
©2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 150 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Why we teach Holocaust education -- How we teach Holocaust education -- Realizing our responsibilities -- Teaching strong cultures -- Survivors share resilience -- Global Holocaust education for the twenty-first century
Summary "Educators and students face many questions when exploring the history of the Holocaust. Both the harrowing historical narrative and its wider contemporary implications make the Holocaust an essential part of our education, whilst simultaneously bringing to the fore challenging questions of how best to recount such an event. This book addresses these crucial questions by exploring the way in which we teach and learn about the Holocaust. It demonstrates how we can dignify memories of the Holocaust by joining with resilient survivors, as well as how careful discussion and interpretation of definitions and appropriate representations can link the Holocaust to human rights and international law. It also highlights that understanding the Holocaust serves as a catalyst for the expansion of human rights and for genocide prevention. Throughout, Polgar applies sociological concepts that can help all of us to understand how the Holocaust has become both a particular concern for Jewish and European groups and also a basis for laws and practices that support universal human rights. Advocating for the inclusion of the Holocaust in multicultural education, this text will prove invaluable to students, researchers and educators alike."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 1, 2019)
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
Human rights -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Study skills
Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787544987
1787544982
9781787560000
1787560007