Teaching and Studying the Holocaust

Samuel Totten is currently professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Prior to entering academia, he was an English and social studies teacher in Australia, Israel, California, and at the U.S. House of Representatives Page School in Washington, D.C. Totten is also editor of Teaching Holocaust Literature published by Allyn & Bacon. Stephen Feinberg is currently the Special Assistant for Education Programs in the National Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With Samuel Totten, he was co-editor of a special issue (Teaching the Holocaust) of Social Education, the official journal of the National Council for the Social Studies. For eighteen years, he was a history and social studies teacher in the public schools of Wayland, MA.

• Foreword; Dr. John K. RothPreface; Stephen Feinberg and Samuel TottenAcknowledgmentsAbout the ContributorsChapter 1. The Significance of Rationale Statements in Developing a Sound Holocaust Education Program; Samuel Totten, Stephen Feinberg, and William FernekesChapter 2. The Holocaust, Historiography, and History; David M. CroweChapter 3. Instructional Issues/Strategies in Teaching the Holocaust; Paul WieserChapter 4. Using Primary Documents in a Study of the Holocaust; Samuel Totten and Robert HinesChapter 5. Incorporating First-Person Accounts into a Study of the Holocaust; Samuel TottenChapter 6. Choosing Holocaust Literature for Early Adolescents; Karen ShawnChapter 7. Incorporating Fiction and Poetry into a Study of the Holocaust at the Secondary Level; Samuel TottenChapter 8. For Better or Worse: Using Film in a Study of the Holocaust; Judith DonesonChapter 9. Expressing the Inexpressible through Film; John Michalczyk and Steve CohenChapter 10. The Internet and the Study of the Holocaust; Derek S. SymerChapter 11. The Inclusion of the Art in a Study of the Holocaust; Shari Rosenstein WerbChapter 12. Drama Activities and the Study of the Holocaust; Belarie ZatzmanChapter 13. Including Music in a Study of the Holocaust; Roselle K. Chartock