scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Holocaust Education on Adolescents’ Civic Values: Experimental Evidence from Arkansas

2021 ◽  
pp. 0193841X2110694
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Lee ◽  
Molly I. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Holocaust Survivor ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Civic Attitudes ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Willingness To Intervene ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Conference

Background American adults overwhelmingly agree that the Holocaust should be taught in schools, yet few studies investigate the potential benefits of Holocaust education. Objectives We evaluate the impact of a Holocaust education conference on knowledge of the Holocaust and several civic outcomes, including “upstander” efficacy (willingness to intervene on behalf of others), likelihood of exercising civil disobedience, empathy for the suffering of others, and tolerance of others with different values and lifestyles. Research Design We recruit two cohorts of students from three local high schools and randomize access to the Arkansas Holocaust Education Conference, where students have the chance to hear from a Holocaust survivor and to participate in breakout sessions led by Holocaust experts. Results We find evidence that the conference increased participants’ upstander efficacy, but fail to reject the null hypothesis that the conference would increase participants’ knowledge or other civic attitudes.

scholarly journals The ATID project: teaching the holocaust! through digital storytelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Kowaz
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
General Application ◽  
Content Learning ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to develop a Holocaust education protocol template with the goals of maximizing student engagement, enhancing the student experience, boosting retention of information, and facilitating the individual's identification with the historical events of the Holocaust. The protocol proposed is of general application and is suitable for other current and historic events. At the same time, the Holocaust is a powerful and appropriate event for illustrating the impact of digital media on education, and in particular, it highlights head on the issue of historical distance from actual events and the ways in which digital technology and media can reduce the risk of losing key sources of testimonial experience that are so often central to the student’s appreciation and understanding of such events. This proposed conceptual protocol is founded on three basic dimensions: Content, Learning Sequencing, and Digital Media. These dimensions are interactive and overlapping in the proposed model.!

Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan, and James Griffiths (eds.), Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xxii + 278 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-278
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
School Students ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Impact

This chapter addresses Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century (2018), a collection of essays on Holocaust education. The volume is organized into four parts. Part I looks at the impact of teaching the Holocaust to primary school students, highlighting the absence of empirical studies on Holocaust learning in the early grades. Part II considers pedagogical approaches toward teaching about the Holocaust in primary schools, arguing that successful teaching approaches for young pupils are those based on survivors' testimonies or on interdisciplinary and cross-curricular approaches involving literacy and art and religious education. Meanwhile, the third section of the book consists of five essays dealing with encountering the Holocaust in museum settings. The final section focuses on student perspectives. Collectively, the contributions in this volume point to the importance of narrative: namely, personal stories through which historical events and their impact on individuals can be explored.

scholarly journals The ATID project: teaching the holocaust! through digital storytelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Kowaz
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
General Application ◽  
Content Learning ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to develop a Holocaust education protocol template with the goals of maximizing student engagement, enhancing the student experience, boosting retention of information, and facilitating the individual's identification with the historical events of the Holocaust. The protocol proposed is of general application and is suitable for other current and historic events. At the same time, the Holocaust is a powerful and appropriate event for illustrating the impact of digital media on education, and in particular, it highlights head on the issue of historical distance from actual events and the ways in which digital technology and media can reduce the risk of losing key sources of testimonial experience that are so often central to the student’s appreciation and understanding of such events. This proposed conceptual protocol is founded on three basic dimensions: Content, Learning Sequencing, and Digital Media. These dimensions are interactive and overlapping in the proposed model.!

scholarly journals Bowling with Veterans: The Impact of Military Service on Subsequent Civic Engagement

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bourg
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Civic Attitudes ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Civic Activity ◽  
Volunteer Force ◽  
The Impact

From Tocqueville to Putnam, scholars have argued that civic engagement is not only the key to a healthy democracy, but also that civic engagement begats more civic engagement. In this paper I examine the effects of military service on subsequent civic engagement. The key finding is that men who served in the US military prior to the advent of All-Volunteer Force (AVF) in 1973 are actually less civically engaged than those who never served. Military service has no significant effect on civic attitudes. These findings represent an especially powerful challenge to the notion that civic participation begets more civic participation. The fact that serving the citizenry through military duty actually decreases one’s subsequent civic involvement indicates that we cannot assume that all forms of civic activity are equally effective at inculcating their participants with civic values and habits. In fact, these findings indicate a need for a more refined conceptualization of the relationships between civic activity and future civic involvement.

zy prawda nas wyzwoli? Przełamywanie oporu psychologicznego w przyjmowaniu wiedzy o Zagładzie

2014 ◽  
pp. 803-822
Author(s):  
Marta Witkowska ◽  
Piotr Forecki
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Positive Group ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Social Psychological Research

The introduction of the programs on Holocaust education in Poland and a broader debate on the transgressions of Poles against the Jews have not led to desired improvement in public knowledge on these historical events. A comparison of survey results from the last two decades (Bilewicz, Winiewski, Radzik, 2012) illustrates mounting ignorance: the number of Poles who acknowledge that the highest number of victims of the Nazi occupation period was Jewish systematically decreases, while the number of those who think that the highest number of victims of the wartime period was ethnically Polish, increases. Insights from the social psychological research allow to explain the psychological foundations of this resistance to acknowledge the facts about the Holocaust, and indicate the need for positive group identity as a crucial factor preventing people from recognizing such a threatening historical information. In this paper we will provide knowledge about the ways to overcome this resistance-through-denial. Implementation of such measures could allow people to accept responsibility for the misdeeds committed by their ancestors.

The Impact of Service Learning on Democratic and Civic Values

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 623-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hunter ◽  
Richard A. Brisbin
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach for Power Management in Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott J. Moura ◽  
Hosam K. Fathy ◽  
Duncan S. Callaway ◽  
Jeffrey L. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Power Management ◽  
Hybrid Electric Vehicle ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Stochastic Dynamic ◽  
Electricity Pricing ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Hybrid Electric ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Charge Depletion

This paper examines the problem of optimally splitting driver power demand among the different actuators (i.e., the engine and electric machines) in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Existing studies focus mostly on optimizing PHEV power management for fuel economy, subject to charge sustenance constraints, over individual drive cycles. This paper adds three original contributions to this literature. First, it uses stochastic dynamic programming to optimize PHEV power management over a distribution of drive cycles, rather than a single cycle. Second, it explicitly trades off fuel and electricity usage in a PHEV, thereby systematically exploring the potential benefits of controlled charge depletion over aggressive charge depletion followed by charge sustenance. Finally, it examines the impact of variations in relative fuel-to-electricity pricing on optimal PHEV power management. The paper focuses on a single-mode powersplit PHEV configuration for mid-size sedans, but its approach is extendible to other configurations and sizes as well.

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