Vision Schools Scotland – SCQF level 11 module in Citizenship and Holocaust Education

Discover more about this module by following the link below.

Citizenship and Holocaust Studies – UWS Centre for Continuing Professional Development

The Citizenship And Holocaust Studies module (EDUC11131) has been designed to allow participants to develop a critical stance in understanding the Holocaust and Holocaust Education in relation to UK government policies, citizenship initiatives and wider philosophical, socio-political, religious and cultural perspectives.  In particular, this module places the Holocaust in its historical and religious perspective, examines it in relation to Judaism (as both a religious and cultural marker), the genocidal policy towards Jews and Roma, the mass murder policies towards other groups, such as gay, disabled and Slavonic people, and reflects on the lessons that can be drawn from the Holocaust for the world today.  Specifically, the module will focus on developing participants’ understanding of key issues in the discourse and effective teaching pedagogies for primary and secondary school contexts and examine how antisemitism can be addressed through Holocaust Education.

Participants will engage with relevant textual and audio visual resources (through the University’s VLE) and have opportunities to reflect on their own practice and practice professional development, and share their own knowledge and experience of the Holocaust and Holocaust Education with each other.  It will also examine how the Holocaust can be approached through cross-curricular approaches with subjects such as Citizenship Education, Social Studies, History and Religious Education. National and international research will be considered within a learning and teaching context and implications for practitioners and learners will be examined.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate critical understanding and knowledge of the main concepts, principles and debates in Holocaust Education.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding  of relevant research relating to the Holocaust and Holocaust Education.
• Demonstrate critical awareness of current issues in Holocaust Education and present analysis on how this contributes to Citizenship Education.
• Demonstrate a critical and systematic analysis of themes arising from Holocaust Education and  present an analysis in a reasoned argument  that expresses ideas clearly and coherently drawing on materials relating to the issues explored during the module and relating these to their own professional experience.
• Demonstrate critical reflections of issues  relating to the Holocaust and Holocaust Education within module discussions.

This is an SCQF Level 11 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

To view the module descriptor, please visit Programme Specifications and Module Descriptors 

Schools in the Vision Schools network and educators from museums or organisations in Scotland who work in Holocaust education can apply enrol on this module.