The touch of the past : remembrance, learning, and ethics / Roger I. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Roger I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

History--Philosophy.

History.

History--Psychological aspects.

History--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

In The Touch of the Past, Roger I. Simon provides a series of thought-provoking essays considering remembrance as a practice within which we can broaden our perspectives, subject our institutions to critique, and ground the bases for new thoughts and action. Based on ten years of research, The Touch of the Past considers how historically traumatic events uniquely summon forgetting and remembrance. Exploring the ways in which remembrance, consciousness, and history intersect, The Touch of the Past contributes to our understanding of how remembrance is fundamentally an educational enterprise. Within a specific focus on events of systemic mass violence, Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning as communities struggle with "difficult histories." The Touch of the Past is a serious and compelling contribution to research in education, historical consciousness, and memory/trauma studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory 1

1 The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary 14

2 Pedagogy and the Call to Witnessing Marc Chagall's / White Crucifixion 32

3 Remembering Obligation: Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma / Claudia Eppert 50

4 Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Remembering and Learning from the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg 65

5 The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory 87

6 Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony / Claudia Eppert, Mark Clamen, Laura Beres 104

7 Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Interhuman / Mario Di Paolantonio, Mark Clamen 132

8 The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony 156.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-188) and index.

ISBN:

1403967466

1403967474

OCLC:

56413620