The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma: Student Encounters with the Holocaust

Bormann, Natalie

This book chronicles a professor’s experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland. Narrated through a series of personal encounters, The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma synthesizes a concrete experiential teaching account - on issues ranging from trauma tourism to the ethics of spectatorship - with contemporary debates on Holocaust education. In doing so, this book seeks to offer a critical assessment on the possibilities and limitations of teaching at sites that were central to the planning and execution of the Holocaust.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-08-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137594440

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59445-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 93