Curriculum and the Holocaust - Competing Sites of Memory and Representation

In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Arguing that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, she examines the ways in which the Holocaust is represented in texts written by historians and by novelists. For both, psychological transference, repression, denial, projection, and reversal contribute heavily to shaping personal memories, and may therefore determine the ways in which they construct the past. The way the Holocaust is represented in curricula is the way it is remembered. Interrogations of this memory are crucial to our understandings of who we are in today's world. The subject of this text--how this memory is represented and how the process of remembering it is taught--is thus central to education today.

List of contents

Contents: Preface. Curriculum Theory and the Holocaust. A Psychoanalytic Hermeneutic. Representation and the Effects of Anti-Semitism. Memory and History. Memory Text of Holocaust Histories. Memory Text of Holocaust Novels. Under the Sign of a Dystopic Curriculum.

About the author

Marla Morris

Summary

Uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation; argues that history is the systematization of memory. Examines the way the Holocaust gets represented in historical texts and in novels.

Product details

• Authors: Marla Morris, Morris Marla
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780805838121
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-3812-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Historiography, EDUCATION / Curricula, Historiography, Second World War, The Holocaust, Teaching of a specific subject, c 1940 to c 1949, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculum planning and development, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General