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The International Status of Education about the Holocaust: A Global Mapping of Textbooks and Curricula

UNESCO, The International Status of Education about the Holocaust: A Global Mapping of Textbooks and Curricula, UNESCO, 2015. ISBN: 978-92-3-100033-1. Pages: 238.

This study, carried out by UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, compares for the first time representations of the Holocaust in school textbooks and national curricula. Drawing on data which includes countries in which there exists no or little information about representations of the Holocaust, the study shows where the Holocaust is established in official guidelines, and contains a close textbook study, focusing on the comprehensiveness and accuracy of representations and historical narratives. The book highlights evolving practices worldwide and thus provides education stakeholders with comprehensive documentation about current trends in curricula directives and textbook representations of the Holocaust. It further formulates recommendations that will help policy-makers provide the educational means by which pupils may develop Holocaust literacy.