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Reflections on What Year 7 Students Know and Understand About the Holocaust: An Argument for Empirical Research in English Primary Schools

Hale, R; (2018) Reflections on What Year 7 Students Know and Understand About the Holocaust: An Argument for Empirical Research in English Primary Schools. In: Szejnmann, CCW and Cowan, P and Griffiths, J, (eds.) Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. (pp. 221-237). Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

This chapter presents findings from a subsample of year 7 students (aged 11–12 years) who participated in a national study to explore knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust in English secondary schools. The students reported their only school-based learning experience of the Holocaust had occurred in primary school, and although caution is needed when drawing on secondary school data to attest to activities in primary schools, the findings do provide clues about what students know and understand about the Holocaust, influenced, in part, by learning about the subject in primary school. There is a paucity of evidence in this area, and this chapter highlights the imperative for empirical research in England to examine whether and how the Holocaust should be taught to younger students.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Reflections on What Year 7 Students Know and Understand About the Holocaust: An Argument for Empirical Research in English Primary Schools
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-73098-1
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8_13
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73099-8_13
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Knowledge, Understanding, Holocaust, Students, Primary schools
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10033964
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