期刊名称：Learning and teaching in higher education (LATHE)
印刷版ISSN：1742-240X
出版年度：2011
期号：5
页码：150-153
出版社：University of Gloucestershire
摘要：Many people think they know about the Holocaust. It is a topic that is learned at school, at university and through media representations. As a grand narrative of European history it dominates any study of the past century. No one can claim to be ignorant about the events and its consequences. As educators in the Arts and Humanities it is often harder to get to the smaller positive stories as the grand narrative of suffering and trauma overpowers. When members of the Jewish Community approached staff and students of the University of Gloucestershire to record and archive the memories of elderly members of the local community, many of whom had been Kindertransport refugees, we were genuinely ignorant of their existence within our provincial and rural, white, English, Christian communities that surrounded the University. Our students were equally ignorant of the Kindertransport initiative of 1939, in which 1,000s of Jewish children were evacuated out of Europe and into foster families in the UK. Our habits of mind and learning had structured our understanding of this period as one of death and destruction, not of hope, settlement, celebration of Jewish identity and a happy, settled community.
