Citizenship and Holocaust Studies

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 

 

Delivery 

Timetable to be confirmed.

 

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dr Paula Cowan and Dr Andrew Killen.

 

Fees and Funding

The module fee is £600.  If you are already enrolled as a student on any other UWS module, a payment plan to spread the cost will be available.

The following applicants can apply for a grant from Vision Schools Scotland to cover the module fee:

• teachers and support staff who work in a Vision School
• teachers and support staff who work in a school that has applied to be a Vision School
• teachers and support staff who work in a school that is applying to be a Vision School in 2025
• educators from museums or organisations in Scotland who work in Holocaust education

Please contact jane.caffrey@uws.ac.uk for further details.

Alternatively, this course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk  

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further enrolment information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.