Touch of the Past

ROGER I. SIMON is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies and Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto, Canada. He is Director, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada.

• Introduction: Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary Pedagogy and the Call to Witness in Marc Chagall's "White Crucifixion" Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Rethinking Remembrances of the Montreal Massacre Remembering Obligation: Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Inter-human The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Video Testimony

"Roger Simon's pioneering work is distinguished by profound attention to ethical relations of learning, deep theoretical knowledge, and a demanding theoretical exposition... [The Touch of the Past] is a major contribution to the cultural studies of pedagogy and ethics ... [it is a] text of great distinction ... rigorous in its scholarly commitment and profound in its topic." - Deborah P. Britzman, Professor of Education, York University, and author of After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning.