Tour guides at memorial sites and Holocaust Museums : empirical studies in Europe, Israel, North America and South Africa / Anja Ballis, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballis, Anja, editor.

Series:

Holocaust Education -- Historisches Lernen -- Menschenrechtsbildung.

Holocaust Education -- Historisches Lernen -- Menschenrechtsbildung Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tour guides (Persons).

Historic sites.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.).

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2022.

Summary:

In this volume, contributors reflect on how to teach and mediate difficult history from the perspectives of guides. Too often, their activities are undervalued and taken for granted. Guides represent an important, often forgotten group of educators. This volume takes a global view on guiding at memorial sites and museums in Europe, North America, and South Africa. The contributors to this volume show from different research traditions that it is worth understanding more about the guides personal interests, their motivations, and their concept of guiding. Authors apply methodologies from the social sciences to describe the guides point of view. Complementing the various approaches in tour guide research, a detailed linguistic analysis sheds light on a survivors testimony echoed in the guides language. The studies gathered in this volume open up an orientation for further approaches to tour guiding based on and centered around "authentic" materials from guides. The Editor Anja Ballis, PhD, professor and chair of German Language Education at the University of Munich. The focus of her research has been on Holocaust education, teaching with digital media, and textbook research. She is also known for her research on interactive 3D testimonies, tour guides at Holocaust museums and memorial sites and as an editor of Holocaust EducationHistorical LearningHuman Rights Education since 2019, Springer Science).

Contents:

Europe: Authenticity at German sites

The memorial site of Dachau: Competition among tour guides

Language as action: How guides talk to female students at memorial sites

Education and Commemoration: Site educators in Germany

The pedagogy in Austria: How do teachers as tour guides react?- From Peer Guides to Professionals: The Anne Frank House and its staff in Berlin.-Poland: Memorial Site Auschwitz. A trip into horror

Israel: Tour Guides in Yad Vashem

Monster of Yishai Sarid. A Grounded Theory-Sketch

North Amercia & South Africa: The USHMM and Chicago Holocaust Museum: A comparison

The Neuberger Holocaust Education Center: The perspective of the head of education

Guiding at the Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Ballis, Anja Tour Guides at Memorial Sites and Holocaust Museums

ISBN:

9783658358181

3658358181

OCLC:

1321790701

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.