Switzerland and the holocaust: Teaching contested history
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serval:BIB_7FD25D37A088
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Switzerland and the holocaust: Teaching contested history
Périodique
Journal of Curriculum Studies
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This study is about a history textbook which introduces the new transnational master‐narrative of Holocaust memory into the classrooms of the German‐speaking part of Switzerland. The script of the book entails a replacement of the formerly dominant view of Switzerland as a neutral nation resisting evil in favour of an image that aligns Switzerland with other nations that accept the Holocaust as part of their national history, and combine their efforts to prevent such crimes in the future. However, this process cannot be seen as hegemonic or total since it is fragmented at various levels. On the level of state power, there is no uniform vision of the nation’s history. Therefore, the book needed to accommodate its critics to a certain extent. Furthermore, there are institutional rules of history education that restrict a direct transmission of knowledge and promote teaching youths to develop their own views. And then there are the teachers, who have their part in shaping history.
Financement(s)
Fonds national suisse
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