RT Article
T1 Can learning about the Holocaust be spiritual? Reflections on a teaching and learning experience with Primary School children.
JF International journal of children's spirituality
VO 23
IS 3
SP 248
OP 259
A1 Wills, Ruth Joy
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580011462
AB In April 2017, I spent a week in Poland researching the Holocaust in Europe. Most notably, I visited the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. Following the visit, I facilitated three History lessons with 10- and 11-year-old children on the role of Auschwitz in the Second World War. As the sessions unfolded, the spiritual themes of meaning, identity and remembering emerged from the children's responses; therefore, this article forms a reflection on how the lessons impacted the children's spiritual lives. It also considers how the History curriculum might include a critical dimension to pedagogy. In particular, it explores how issues such as theology, morality and the role of representation open up a space for critical questioning. I suggest that such questioning is also spiritual. Thus, the self-awareness and criticality inspired might contribute to transformation - of both the teachers and learners and the world around them.
K1 History
K1 Holocaust
K1 Auschwitz
K1 Critical Pedagogy
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.1080/1364436X.2018.1459510