The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma

Download or read book The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma written by Natalie Bormann and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles a professor’s experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland. Narrated through a series of personal encounters, The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma synthesizes a concrete experiential teaching account - on issues ranging from trauma tourism to the ethics of spectatorship - with contemporary debates on Holocaust education. In doing so, this book seeks to offer a critical assessment on the possibilities and limitations of teaching at sites that were central to the planning and execution of the Holocaust.