The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning and Ethics

by R. Simon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403967466
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/11/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ROGER I. SIMON is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies and Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto, Canada. He is Director, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary Pedagogy and the Call to Witness in Marc Chagall's "White Crucifixion" Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Rethinking Remembrances of the Montreal Massacre Remembering Obligation: Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Inter-human The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Video Testimony

Editorial Reviews

"Roger Simon's pioneering work is distinguished by profound attention to ethical relations of learning, deep theoretical knowledge, and a demanding theoretical exposition. . . . [The Touch of the Past] is a major contribution to the cultural studies of pedagogy and ethics . . . [it is a] text of great distinction . . . rigorous in its scholarly commitment and profound in its topic." - Deborah P. Britzman, Professor of Education, York University, and author of After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning.

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