Question for Reflection

Of Levine-Rasky's article p. 147.

4. How is the Holocaust taken up in the curriculum? How does teaching about the Holocaust compare to teaching about Israel? About Palestinians and the Middle East? About other genocides?

In my own experience as a student of the Canadian high school curriculum, I would say that the Holocaust is studied with respect to its connection with WWII in History or "Modern Western Civilizations." Maybe we read the Diary of Anne Frank. There was no coverage of the history of the region known as the "Middle East"--or a particular breakdown of a complex and layered region into contemporary delineations of Israel and Palestine. There was little to no coverage of of other genocides in the curriculum, which in my eyes and many of my peers' is even worse because there are genocides happening today. We have to be very careful in thinking not only about about how we 1) approach a subject, and 2) present material, but what material is actually presented.