The Future of Holocaust Education

DPI/ NGO Briefing on “The Future of Holocaust Education”, in observance of the International Day for the Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Side Events
• Video Length: 02:36:04
• Production Date: 28 January 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION - DPI
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; HOLOCAUST
• MAMS Id: 1555323
• Parent Id: 1554222

Description

This briefing brings together experts from academic institutions and international organizations, researchers, educators and authors who will examine current trends in Holocaust research and education. Key questions to be addressed include how to expand teacher training and Holocaust education around the world; how to adapt to a changing environment with the rise of multicultural classroom settings and fewer and fewer eye witnesses to testify to the Holocaust and what role international organizations have to play in the field. The panellists will include Szabolcs Takács, Chair of IHRA, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor and Holocaust History, Founding Director of Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University; Professor Zehavit Gross, Chairholder, UNESCO/Burg Chair in Education for Human Values, Tolerance and Peace, Bar-llan University; Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies and Jane Jacobs, Director of the International Relations Department at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. The discussion will be moderated by Kimberly Mann, the Chief of the Education Outreach Section in the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information.