The Touch of the Past

Remembrance, Learning and Ethics

R. Simon

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781403967466
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137115249
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

In Roger Simon's new collection based on ten years of research, the respected scholar reminds us that historically traumatic events simultaneously summon forgetting and remembrance in unique ways. The Touch of the Past explores the ways in which remembrance, consciousness, and history affect how students learn and educators teach. Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning and how communities deal with collective memory. A serious contribution to the research in education and memory and trauma studies from a top philosopher in the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Credits
• Introduction Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory
• One The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary
• Two Pedagogy and the Call to Witnessing Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion
• Three Remembering Obligation:Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma
• Four Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Remembering and Learning from the Montréal Massacre
• Five The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory
• Six Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony
• Seven Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Interhuman
• Eight The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony
• Notes
• References
• Index