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An Optimistic View on the Future of Holocaust Education

In the first session of the conference, history teachers talked about the challenges they face when teaching about this period in history. Miljenko Hajdarović formerly a primary a nd secondary school history teacher and member of the working group for the implementation of the national curriculum reform that resigned in 2016, and currently an editor with the publishing house Profil-Klett, named his presentation "An Optimistic View on the Future of Holocaust Education", as the new curriculum has reserved space for such education, while improving the opportunities for professional training. A large number of teachers have already gone through some kind of education on this topic. As challenges he listed too little time for a complex topic that has to be rushed in 2 to 3 lessons ; a lack of suitable materials, especially for remote teaching, the pressure that revisionist narratives exert on teachers, as well as anybody involved in educating pupils and adults ; and the fact that it is still allowed to present such narratives, for instance about the threefold Jasenovac camp and similar revisionist notions, in schools, in some cases originating from the community and the parents themselves. Hajdarović also expressed an expectation that the new history textbooks that are currently in preparation will once again provoke public controversies over their content. He also highlighted the problem of the absence of strong professional bodies that might come to the defence of educational materials and teachers. We also have entrenched institutions that defend their perspectives to serve whichever particular interests, leaving these topics further out in the cold.

holocaust, education, Anti-Semitism

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