Titre
Switzerland and the holocaust: Teaching contested history
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Schär, Bernhard Carlos
Auteure/Auteur
Sperisen, Vera
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
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.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_7FD25D37A088
Date de création
2022-02-17T10:54:47.940Z
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2025-05-21T03:40:14Z
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Nom
Switzerland and the Holocaust teaching contested history.pdf
Version du manuscrit
preprint
Taille
221.95 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
PID Serval
serval:BIB_7FD25D37A088.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_7FD25D37A0880
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