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Symposium Keynote Address by Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Making Connections in Holocaust Education: Scholarship, Research and Educational Practice.
A Symposium - 20 January 2010.
This event was organised by the Institute of Education’s Holocaust Education Development Programme (HEDP) and sponsored by The Pears Foundation.
National and International Events
SHP Conference - July 2010
Paul Salmons will be giving a key note address to teachers at the 2010 School's History Project Conference in Leeds, 3-5 July. The HEDP's Head of Curriculum and Development will be speaking on 'The Struggle for Memory: The Holocaust in History and History in the Curriculum'. For further details about the programme, including the wide range of exciting workshops please visit www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk/conference or click on the attached flier.
USC Shoah Foundation - May 2010
A workshop at the Central European University organised by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
A New Generation of Learning: Holocaust Education and the Internet
Kay Andrews represented the HEDP at a recent workshop convened by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (SFI) and held at the CEU in Budapest. The workshop brought together SFI partners from across Europe, including those working in the Ukraine, Slovakia, France and Poland. Issues discussed included Holocaust denial on the internet, as well as how young people engage with the new media of web 2.0 and 3.0. Kay gave two presentations, the first introduced the work of the HEDP and the role of the internet, the second focused specifically on a new learning tool being developed by the HEDP for use by Year 9 students. Feedback on this new learning tool was tremendously positive with colleagues from across Europe keen to hear more of its future developments. The workshop also gave participants the opportunity to try the SFIs new online learning resource Iwitness.
HEDP and Conference on Jewish Education – April 2010
On Thursday 29th April 2010, Amy Philip (The Pears Foundation), Alice Pettigrew and Ruth-Anne Lenga (HEDP) present the findings of the HEDP research to delegates at a conference on 'Research in Jewish Education'. The session raises questions and issues that relate to the teaching of the Holocaust within Jewish educational contexts. The event is organised by the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA).
TES Education north – April 2010
On Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th April the HEDP had a stand at the TES Education north event held in Manchester. The show, which attracts teachers from across the UK, gave HEDP staff the opportunity to meet many teachers, to hear about their CPD needs in Holocaust Education and to recruit them for the national HEDP CPD.
London Jewish Cultural Centre – March 2010
On 11th March HEDP staff presented their work to the Holocaust survivor group at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. Paul Salmons and Kay Andrews were able to share the findings of the HEDP research report as well as providing details of the CPD programme. The presentation was well received and gave survivors the chance to raise questions about the future of Holocaust education.
Teachers’ TV – March 2010
TES Education Show in London - October 2010
On Friday & Saturday 1 - 2 October 2010 in the National Hall, Olympia we participated in the TES Education show. Thank you to all of you we met there and we look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming CPD programmes across the country.
Book Launch - October 2010
Nearly 70 people attended the IOE for the launch of a new book Polish Testimonies of the Shoah. HEDP Director Stuart Foster welcomed the gathering which consisted of academics, teachers, teachers in training and a large number of Holocaust survivors. Marian Turski who conceived the book and Ben Helfgott who championed the book and ensured that it was translated into English spoke of the significance of the testimonies brought into the open in this publication. The raw and candid eye witness accounts speak of many dilemmas and agonising choices that arose during the Nazi ghettoisation of the Jews of Warsaw. In some cases Poles risked their lives in an attempt to help Jews while other testimonies speak of the opportunity to act that they passed by and the life sentence of guilt that has clouded their lives ever since. Other contributors simply recalled what they saw. Marian Turski now in his 80s spoke of how the book came in to being and thanked those who sponsored the project. Finally Alice Miller a teacher from Hendon School London read out a powerful extract from the book and spoke of the challenge facing teachers of the Holocaust. Alice endorsed the value of the book in order that students come to a more complex understanding of the Holocaust and they can grapple with the issue of meaning. The event was jointly organised by IOE, Vallentine Mitchell and The Polish Institute of Holocaust Studies with support from the ‘45 Aid Society. For copies please contact Vallentine Mitchell publishers at:
Vallentine Mitchell
29/45 High Street
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 7UU
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8952 9526
Congratulations from HEDP team
HEDP would like to extend congratulations and good wishes to Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott, Jack Kagan and Josef Perl on their recent 80th birthdays.
Task Force for International Co-operation in Holocaust Education
At the Task Force for International Co-operation in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research meeting held in Oslo
Publication of ground breaking research
The Holocaust Development Programme (HEDP) has just launched its ground-breaking research, the first of its kind in England in both scope and scale.
IWM Fellowship in Holocaust Education
The HEDP is assisting in the development of the IWM Fellowship in Holocaust Education
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