I am currently graduating as a pedagogue and I am a member of a youth association. We are planning an educational trip to Auschwitz in October. As a prospective pedagogue, I would like to delve deeper into this and then I mainly want to focus on what we should pay attention to as supervisors. What response can we expect from the young people and how can we respond to this? Beforehand I want to organize an evening for the supervisors to explain a few things. Can you help me with information or with other books/resources?
Asker: Esther, 23 years old
Answer
Dear Esther,
The pedagogical service of the Dossin barracks can probably help you best (see link). A good keyword to google could be “reminder education”. You may also like Shoshana Felman’s article titled “Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching” (about a course on testimony that turned out to be a traumatic experience for her students, and how she handled it). That article appeared in 1991 in american image, 48:13-73.
(thanks to colleague Stef Craps, director of the Center for Literature and Trauma at Ghent University)
Answered by
Prof. Gert Buelens
English and American Literature American Studies Gender and Sexuality
university of Ghent
http://www.ugent.be
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