Site-seeing: reflections on visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with teenagers
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This paper considers how the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum is experienced by teenage visitors on organized visits with the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK). The findings presented are based on semi-structured interviews with twelve 17 year olds, exploring their emotional engagement with the sites and how they perceive and understand this emotional interaction. The findings suggest that young people experience their visit in a variety of ways, and that this is an incomplete and ongoing process in their learning. The paper raises a number of considerations for educators taking educational visits to the museum, to support pupils in their learning.
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Holocaust Education Educational Tours Evaluation Interviews Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Teenagers
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27(1)
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77-90
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Link to article (paywalled), Site-seeing: reflections on visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with teenagers
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Site-seeing: reflections on visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with teenagers. 2021: 77-90. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17504902.2019.1625121
