Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann is Professor of Modern History at Loughborough University, UK. His research considers how contemporaries responded to Nazism and genocide. Major publications include two monographs, four edited books, and one edited special journal. He recently co-edited A Companion to the Third Reich (2018).Paula Cowan is Reader in Education at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.  Her research focuses on school-based citizenship and Holocaust education. She is the joint editor of Teaching Controversial Issues in the Classroom (2012), and the leading author of Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education (2017).James Griffiths is Director of Learning at the UK National Holocaust Centre and Museum. He defines and implements the Centre’s learning strategy and quality assures its learning programmes. He speaks regularly at national and international events about the period 1933-45, and how it can be taught successfully to primary-aged pupils

• Part 1: Impact.- Curricular imprints or the presence of curricular pasts: a study of one third grader’s Holocaust education 12 years later; Simone Schweber and Irene Ann Resenly.-  Part 2: Pedagogy.- Using Holocaust Testimony in Primary Education:  An Initial Inquiry; Amy Carnes, Kori Street and Claudia Ramirez Wiedeman.- There’s no ‘J’ in (the) Holocaust: perceptions and practice of Holocaust education; Paula Cowan.-  Poetry, charcoal and a requiem: an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the Holocaust to primary students; Graham Duffy and Paula Cowan.- Transformative transition: the case for Religious Education (RE) in cross-curricular Holocaust Education across the Primary/Secondary divide in English schools; Alasdair Richardson.- Holocaust Education in Austrian primary schools: A plea for teaching the history of National Socialism to 9- and 10-Year-Olds; Philipp Mittnik.- Teaching about Trauma without Traumatizing: Yad Vashem's Spiral Pedagogical Approach in Light of Developmental Psychology; Yael Richler-Friedman.- Part 3: Museum Education.- Transcending Moral and Emotional Engagement: The Use of Holocaust Heritage in Primary Education; Pieter De Bruijn.- Diversity and Difference: Changing people’s attitudes and behaviours through a school and community based Holocaust Education project; Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Gary Mills, James Griffiths and Bill Niven.- Holocaust Education in the Museum Space:  An Israeli Perspective; Madene Shachar.- Teachers’ Use of Montreal Holocaust Museum’sPedagogical Material Aiming at Primary School Students’ Engagement Through Human Stories; Cornélia Strickler and Sabrina Moisan.- 'Hide and Seek: Stories of Survival' : solving the problem of the pencil; Lisa Phillips.- Part 4: Student Perspectives.- Reflections on What Year 7 Students Know and Understand About the Holocaust: An Argument for Empirical Research in English Primary Schools; Rebecca Hale.- “ ... they locked them up in houses and let gas in”: Swiss primary school pupils’ conceptions of the Holocaust; Christian Mathis.- What do children ask? What do children know? Awareness, knowledge and contemporary history; Detlef Pech and Christine Achenbach.