A Teacher’s Guide to Remembrance Education
The RETHINK consortium has collected and selected good practices that offer real learning opportunities for participants to develop critical thinking, self-criticism, self-evaluation and self-reflection, and tested them in a range of contexts.
Our Teachers’ Guide to Remembrance Education aims to present the results of our piloting activities, which took place across Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland and Poland between September 2018 and July 2019.
It is neither a quantitative analysis of all or even most remembrance education practices that exist across Europe, nor a comprehensive guide to remembrance education. Rather, it aims to provide (practical) support and tips to improve educators’ practice. In this sense, the guide should be seen as a handbook, containing tools educators can use to address challenges they encounter when teaching about remembrance.
This handbook is meant as a tool to support educators from both the formal and informal educational sectors. It is specifically dedicated to open minded teachers who want to implement informal education practices in their classrooms. It includes:
Tips and ideas
Tips and ideas on how to integrate remembrance education principles into your practice and adapt your teaching in the form of bullet point suggestions;
Advice
Advice tailored to the needs of experienced or junior teachers;
Text boxes
Text boxes with additional context or background information;
Testimonies
Testimonies from the teachers who tested these practices;
The Practices
Note that these practices are NOT meant to be used separately from the teacher’s guide. The RETHINK consortium strongly encourages you to read the guide carefully, before using these practices in your context.
For each practice, you can access a factsheet with basic information on the activity (topic, target group, length, required materials…) and an activity plan that you can download and print to use in class.
We hope you will enjoy reading our Teacher’s Guide to Remembrance Education and getting acquainted with the practices we have selected; and most importantly, feel inspired to try out remembrance education programmes in your educational context!
| PRACTICE | AUTHOR | COUNTRY | ACTIVITY FACTSHEET | ACTIVITY PLAN |
| An Archive More Important than Life | The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute | Poland |  | |
| Ordinary Heroes | Kazerne Dossin | Belgium | | |
| IWitness – Online learing module on antisemitism | Erinnern | Austria | | |
| History is Postered Up | Mémorial de la Shoah | France | | |
| Preparing to Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau | Holocaust Education Trust Ireland – HETI | Ireland | | |
| 17 letters – For the last time and forever | Montreal Holocaust Museum | Canada | | |