Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives, which took full account of the chronological diversity of people's…

Computers play an important role in adolescent youth culture. This adolescent use of computers has much deeper implications than simply developing specific technical skills. Focusing on the relation between adolescent subjects and computers reveals three issues of particular interest: individual identity formation, self-formation and…

Describes a ninth-grade world history segment designed to explore the historical, economic, and social conditions within Germany which spawned the Holocaust. Milgram's experiments on blind obedience are offered as one explanation for the lack of active resistance to Nazi policies. (AM)

States that instruction in pedagogics at the lower level of secondary education within the German school system is usually offered as a compulsory optional subject for grades nine and ten and is taught under the name of pedagogics, educational science, socio-pedagogics, social work, or basic pedagogics. (CMK)

This article presents an innovative professional development project, "Facing the Past-Transforming Our Future," developed collaboratively by the Western Cape Educational Department, the Cape Town Holocaust Centre (CTHC), and the US-based teacher professional development organization Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO). "Facing the…