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Teaching Children About Children in the Holocaust or Why Am I Confused About Holocaust Education in the Public Schools?

Teaching Children About Children in the Holocaust or Why Am I Confused About Holocaust Education... SHOFAR David A. Frolick Political Science Department North Central College Over the years I have faced the challenge of trying to teach about the Holocaust to a variety of groups, both Jewish and non-Jewish-ehildren,. teenagers, college students, and adults. I believed that teaching children about the Holocaust was always the toughest and touchiest pedagogical challenge for the instructor. One has to be concerned about learning materials, approach, trauma, how much the children know or don't know, and what it is that the children retain. That challenge, I believe, has now been magnified. On January 1, 1990, the following act was added to The Illinois School Code: Sec. 27-20-3. Holocaust Study. Every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world history is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and millions of non-Jews were exterminated. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all natons to never again permit the occurrence of another Holocaust. The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make available to all school boards instructional http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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SHOFAR David A. Frolick Political Science Department North Central College Over the years I have faced the challenge of trying to teach about the Holocaust to a variety of groups, both Jewish and non-Jewish-ehildren,. teenagers, college students, and adults. I believed that teaching children about the Holocaust was always the toughest and touchiest pedagogical challenge for the instructor. One has to be concerned about learning materials, approach, trauma, how much the children know or don't know, and what it is that the children retain. That challenge, I believe, has now been magnified. On January 1, 1990, the following act was added to The Illinois School Code: Sec. 27-20-3. Holocaust Study. Every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world history is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and millions of non-Jews were exterminated. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all natons to never again permit the occurrence of another Holocaust. The State Superintendent of Education may prepare and make available to all school boards instructional

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

Published: Oct 3, 1992

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