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Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education Holocaust education is a controversial and rapidly evolving field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it. Adopting a truly global perspective, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education explores both teachers' and students' levels of Holocaust knowledge as well as their attitudes and approaches towards the subject. Moreover, it employs a forward-looking perspective by thinking about how the subject will be taught when there are no survivors remaining and what challenges and opportunities digital technology, social media and online learning offer the modern teacher of the Holocaust. This book seeks to shift the parameters of existing debates and offer an insightful commentary on the nature, scope and direction of Holocaust education, which will be of great use to academics, teachers and policy-makers alike. (By the publisher) 
Teaching the representation of the Holocaust “Can the story be told?” Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun’s question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945. The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines (history, literary criticism, psychology, film studies) and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education. This volume offers approaches to such works as Jurek Becker’s Jacob the Liar, Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful, Anne Frank’s diary, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl, Dan Pagis’s “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car,” Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Elie Wiesel’s Night, and Abraham Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani. To the challenge “How do we transmit so hurtful an image of our own species without killing hope and breeding indifference?” posed by Geoffrey Hartman in this volume, the editors respond, “Only in the very human context of classroom interaction can we hope to avoid either false redemption or unending despair.” (By the publisher) 
Toward a Philosophy of Holocaust Education: Teaching Values without Imposing Agendas Most teachers hope to make a difference in the lives of their students, but whether they accomplish this with any regularity is often left unclear. With a topic like the Holocaust, the stakes are greatly raised. In this essay, the author discusses the place of the Holocaust in the liberal arts. He argues that the content of Holocaust education must revolve around a methodology that allows students to conjure and experiment with new and deeper self-understanding(s). Teaching the Holocaust effectively means freeing (and urging) students to ask questions about historical epistemology (i.e., the ways in which historians come to know what they do), as well as questions which speak directly to the challenges of the current moment. The idea behind this philosophy is to teach the past in a manner that equips students to see the ramifications of their choices in contrast to the Germans who, by virtue of their own choices, allowed themselves to be fastened in a system designed to achieve national revitalization and racial purification at any and all costs. He stresses that history teachers, as the most recent data show, cannot further their own agendas by using the Holocaust as an instrument for political indoctrination, but they can still lead their students toward new ways of thinking about the world and their place in it. (By the publisher) 
Accountability for Gender Equality Year of publication: 2018 Author: Elaine Unterhulter | Amy North | Orlanda Ward The aim of this paper is to consider approaches to understanding and evaluating accountability in education from the perspective of concerns with gender equality in education. This task has a number of facets and complexities, because ‘gender’ is not one simple set of relationships, and the notion of gender equality in education can be read in a number of different ways. Thus developing adequate conceptualizations for the key terms (accountability, and gender equality and education) needs to take account of gender as a particularly fluid, contextually located and contested idea signaling processes, which link with different formulations of policy and practice to enhance gender equality and accountability in education.In this paper we look at a range of different meanings of accountability, distilled in the main GEM Report (UNESCO, 2017) and consider their implications in relation to debates about gender and gender equality in education. The aim of the paper is to develop a ‘bespoke’ interpretation of accountability and different forms of gender equality in education through which we can assess a number of research studies and country examples of forms of accountability.This paper is also background paper prepared for the 2018 Global education monitoring report gender review: Meeting our commitments to gender equality in education. 
UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education: Call for Nominations 2018 Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: UNESCO The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours outstanding and innovative practices advancing girls’ and women’s education, and in turn, improving the quality of their lives. Established in 2015, it is funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China and consists of two US $50,000 awards to help further the work of laureates in this field. The Prize directly contributes to Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 5. 
Bibliography: Citizenship Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: France Education International Prepared at the request of the French Institute of the Netherlands, this selection of freely accessible digital resources is aimed at French as a Foreign Language (FLE) teachers who wish to educate their students about citizenship. Focused on secularism and the values of the French Republic, it includes international reports, articles and podcasts, didactic and pedagogical resources, as well as presentations of European projects and French academic and school projects that can be adapted to various contexts. 
The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024 Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: Amnesty International Le Rapport d’Amnesty International décrit la situation des droits humains dans le monde en 2023 dans 155 pays différents. Les équipes de journalistes et d’enquêteurs de l'ONG peignent un portrait plutôt sombre, avec notamment un recul du droit des femmes, les conséquences dramatiques du réchauffement climatique sur les populations les plus vulnérables, le recul du droit de manifester, ou encore la prolifération de la haine en ligne dans le monde. La multiplication des conflits armés et le choc du 7 octobre ont également eu des conséquences dramatiques. Cependant, quelques bonnes nouvelles sont aussi à noter, avec des avancées pour les droits des personnes LGBTI par exemple. Amnesty International Report describes the human rights situation worldwide in 2023 in 155 different countries. TheNGO's teams of journalists and investigators paint a rather gloomy picture, with, in particular, a decline in women's rights, the dramatic consequences of global warming on the most vulnerable populations, a decline in the right to protest, and the proliferation of online hate around the world. The multiplication of armed conflicts and the shock of October 7 have also had dramatic consequences. However, there is some good news too, with advances in LGBTI rights for example. 
Encyclopedia on Democracy and Citizen Participation Author: Malorie Flon | Émilie Béorofei Corporate author: Institut du Nouveau Monde (INM) As part of its Strategic Meeting on Democracy and Citizen Participation, the INM has set up an online information pack, the first contents of which you will find on this site.A vast deliberative process, the Strategic Rendezvous aims to enlighten the people of Quebec on the current transformations of our democracy: a representative system that no longer responds, on its own, to the democratic requirement; a growing demand from certain citizens to participate in decisions that affect them; increasingly complex social issues and collective challenges, which public and private authorities must tackle; institutions forced to adapt quickly and continuously to a constantly changing world.The Briefing Kit tackles these questions by providing basic notions of the concepts involved: democracy, participation, citizenship, etc. To questions frequently asked during public debates, the dossier offers some possible answers. It outlines, for the reader who wants to dive into it, definitions of the different types of citizen participation: public, electoral, social. In order to better understand what is practiced in Quebec in each of these categories, the reader will turn to The authorities of public participation in Quebec.Are you a practitioner or would you like to deepen your knowledge of the practice of citizen participation? The Toolbox is here for you! It contains references, guides, methods and examples of experiences that will equip you to implement, in turn, participatory practices. 
Reforming School Education in Uzbekistan (Sciences of Europe; no.64) Year of publication: 2021 Author: N. Khakimov The author of the article investigated the innovative aspects of reforming school education in a new stage of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The article emphasizes the role of school education in the successful implementation of democratic reforms and the development of civil society. The author of the article made an attempt to reveal the mission of school education in society, the tasks of secondary schools, in the upbringing of the younger generation and the importance of the activities of teachers in the process of modernizing school education. 
Investigation and Enlightenment on Right and Obligations Consciousness from the Perspective of Citizenship (Advances in Social Sciences; vol. 7, no. 9) Year of publication: 2018 Author: Li Haiyan It is the key stage for students in high school on self-consciousness development and the forma- tion of values. It occupies the core position in the whole system of civic consciousness education. The citizenship cognition, rights and obligations consciousness and the establishment of social responsibility will affect the development of individual, society and state. This paper surveys to learn the high school students citizenship awareness, right and obligation consciousness status, deeply to analyze the current high school students’ challenges, offer the effective suggestions, help students to complete transition from students to social citizen role successfully.