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October 23, 2007
CFP: “Holocaust Education in Central and Eastern Europe: International Pressure, National Policies, and Classroom Practice”
Call for papers for an edited volume.
The issue of Holocaust education is, and should be, a subject that arouses great passions. However, there has been a dearth of sober, empirical research into the dynamics of Holocaust education in Central and Eastern Europe, investigating, for example, classroom practices, textbook representations, teacher, student and public attitudes about the Holocaust, national educational policies, the use of museums and extermination camps as education sites, transnational borrowing and lending of educational models and materials, curriculum development, discourse analysis of the rationales for adopting or rejecting expanded Holocaust education materials, the use or non-use of imported or foreign-funded materials, or the efficacy of personal encounters and visits to Israel. The editors of this book invite proposals that investigate these and potentially other relevant topics in Holocaust education in post-socialist Europe. The editors endorse the inclusion of a broad array of methodological and disciplinary approaches.
The book intends in particular to address four areas that need scholarly attention:
1. The role of international pressure and transnational educational networks on Holocaust Education policy in practice in Central and Eastern Europe.
2. The specific local meanings and understandings that the Holocaust has in different regions or countries (for example, how did and does Holocaust education differ in the former West and East Germany, or in the eastern and western parts of Poland that were overrun first by the Soviets and Nazis, respectively.)
3. How Holocaust education is being resisted, embraced or appropriated as a result of larger societal narratives of national victimization and individual or collective responsibility.
4. The extent to which Holocaust education discusses the broad range of groups and individuals targeted by Nazi racist ideology.
Because the book is intended to be accessible both to scholars and to an educated public, chapters are expected to be clearly written without gratuitous use of jargon; scholarly terminology exists for a reason, and should be used whenever needed, but with sufficient explanation to orient readers from outside one's discipline. In addition, we ask that all contributors make clear their own positionality with respect to the issues they will be addressing. While the editors know that advocates and activists make important and fundamental contributions to research, we do believe that it is essential to be forthcoming about our own perspectives and wish to emphasize that the focus of this volume is on high-quality, original empirical research, and not on explicit advocacy per se. The chapters will be formatted according to APA guidelines. Proposals should consist of approximately 500 words and should be sent to both editors at the earliest convenience. Advanced drafts of papers are sought by summer, 2008. Publication is intended for late 2008.
Doyle Stevick
University of South Carolina
stevick@gwm.sc.edu
Deborah Michaels
University of Michigan
deborka@umich.edu
Posted by idareyou at October 23, 2007 12:18 PM