The Education Department of the Warsaw University of Technology and the Warsaw Center for Educational, Social and Training Innovation invite teachers to a free seminar entitled “The Road to the Shoah – Culture and Pedagogy of Remembrance in Holocaust Education,” which will take place on January 13–14, 2023. Registration is available at: https://linkd.pl/2urzz.
The Road to the Shoah—The Culture and Pedagogy of Remembrance in Holocaust Education seminar is aimed at teachers of all specialties in primary and secondary schools. The seminar aims to enhance their competences and broaden their knowledge in the following areas:
- strategies and methods of teaching about the Holocaust in the context of activating historical memory of totalitarian crimes;
- culture and pedagogy of memory, their forms and varieties and place in school teaching and the educational process;
- active cooperation with cultural institutions and memorial sites and its use in teaching and educational work.
Seminar program (13 teaching hours):
Friday, January 13 | WCIES headquarters, Stara 4 Street
- 15.30 - 16.30 lecture The Road to the Shoah (Dr. Martyna Grądzka-Rejak, Scientific and Research Department of the Water Management University);
- 16.45 - 18.30 documentary film screening Michał Szymanowicz Operation Reinhardt and presentation of educational materials on Operation Reinhardt – a criminal operation of Nazi Germany carried out as part of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”, as a result of which nearly 2 million Jews died.
Saturday, January 14 | MGW office, Zielna Street 39
- 10.00 - 12.00 educational walk around the Warsaw Ghetto (Masha Makarova, Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum);
- 12.30 - 14.30 movie screening History of the Warsaw Ghetto and presentations on religious and cultural life in the Warsaw Ghetto (Dr. Halina Postek, Dr. Wiesława Młynarczyk; Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum);
- 14.45 – 16 workshops How to teach about the Holocaust based on biographical materials (Dr. Wiesława Młynarczyk).
Participation in the seminar is free. Please register using the form on the WCIES website . Space is limited.
