The Ethics of Teaching Disturbing Pasts: Reader Response, Historical Contextualization, and Rhetorical (Con)Textualization of Holocaust Texts in English

Autor/in	Juzwik, Mary M.
Titel	The Ethics of Teaching Disturbing Pasts: Reader Response, Historical Contextualization, and Rhetorical (Con)Textualization of Holocaust Texts in English
Quelle	In: English Education, 45 (2013) 3, S.284-308 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-8204
Schlagwörter	History Instruction; Death; European History; Jews; Teaching Methods; War; Secondary Education; Ethics; English Instruction; English Teachers; Literature; Context Effect; Student Reaction; Moral Values; Identification (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Krieg; Sekundarbereich; Ethik; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Literatur; Schülerkritik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert
Abstract	A set of especially complicated ethical relationships becomes visible in literary study when the unspeakable atrocity of state-sponsored genocide is part of the story, as it is in many wartime texts taught in secondary English classrooms. What then is the nature of an English teacher's obligation to the detailed particularity of the past and to those who endured that past when encouraging students' individual and collaborative responses to texts in the present (or in the future)? I explore the broad ethical question by discussing specific difficulties presented by the case of Holocaust pedagogy. The guiding purpose of the discussion is to explore a set of more general questions about the ethical dimensions of literary engagement in English--and specifically engagement with texts about disturbing pasts.(Contains 10 notes and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10