New Testimony-Centered Teaching Materials
We are happy to share that Dr. Aya Marczyk and her colleagues have partnered with the American Historical Review (AHR) to publish new testimony-centered curriculum materials in the March issue of the AHR. They will also offer a related webinar for educators on Wednesday, May 8th. Dr. Marczyk, the Fortunoff Archive’s curriculum development fellow, has been working with Dr. Abby Reisman at the Penn Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Brenda Santos at Brown’s Annenberg Institute to develop a new approach to teaching historiography in high schools and in college survey courses. They share the design principles of this instructional model, which they call Historiography-Based Inquiry, in their AHR article. It is a pedagogical approach that invites students to analyze how historical arguments evolve over time and how historians interpret sources to construct and revise understandings of the past. The new unit explores the question “What is the role of survivor testimony and voices of victims in the study of the Holocaust?” It invites students to explore the path from the marginalization of survivor voices in early postwar histories of the Holocaust to what Annette Wieviorka has called the “Era of the Witness.” Students first read excerpts from Martin Broszat’s historical […]
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