Holocaust Education in Ontario High Schools: an antidote to racism?

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Title:	Holocaust Education in Ontario High Schools: an antidote to racism?
Source:	Journal of Education, Jun2000, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p292, 15p
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Year:	2000
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, racial discrimination, racism, Ontario, civil and political rights, education
Abstract:	The premise underpinning this article is that if the Holocaust is taught well it can help to promote anti-racist goals. The need to realise the Holocaust’s anti-racist potential is self-evident, but is arguably greatest where conventional anti-racism (aimed at enhancing the life chances of visible minorities) is under threat. Such a situation currently obtains in Ontario, where the right wing Progressive Conservative party was elected to office in June 1995. The uncertain future of anti-racism in the province provides the background to this article. It examines the teaching of the Holocaust in Ontario high schools and reports the findings of a survey carded out among history staff in May 1998. Various ways are suggested in which the teachers involved (and others elsewhere) might alter theft approach to the Holocaust in order to strengthen its contribution to anti-racist education.
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