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ABSTRACT
This article adopts onto-epistemological framework for investigating pedagogical practices, focusing on the specific context of Holocaust education excursions to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABSM) and focusing on pedagogy in and through audio-headsets. It is based on an extensive dataset collected through ethnographic-inspired observations at ABSM, and focusing particularly upon three school-based excursion groups (two Scottish, one Norwegian). Through processes of spatial ordering and intra-action, we argue that the relationships comprising ‘things’ (e.g. students, exhibitions in the Museum, knowledges about the Holocaust) can be explored as more-and-less visible.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our participants for their support during this research.
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Notes on contributors
Dr Susan Henderson is a Lecturer in Education at the University of the West of Scotland. She is a specialist in Educational sociomaterialism, focusing on Holocaust Education. She has volunteered with the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre to develop a place-responsive approach to Holocaust pedagogies.
Dr Lindsay Dombrowski is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of the West of Scotland. Her research focus is in educational policy and planning.
ORCID
Susan Henderson http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0144-8195
Lindsay Dombrowski http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0124-5793
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Notes
1 Brendler cited in Boschki, Reichmann, and Schwendemann, “Education After & About Auschwitz.”
2 Andrews, “A Place for the Victim,” 46.
3 Wollaston, “Negotiating the Marketplace.”
4 Schweber, “Holocaust Fatigue.”
5 Totten 2002 in Clements, “A Very Neutral Voice.”
6 Novick, Holocaust and Collective Memory.
7 Andrews, “A Place for the Victim”, Andriotis, “Sacred Site Experience”, Ben Peretz and Shachar, “Experiential Learning in Holocaust Education”, Blum, “Reflections on an AME Trip to Auschwitz”, Cohen, “Educational Dark Tourism”, Cowan and Maitles, “Students from Scotland Visiting Auschwitz”, Feldman, Youth Voyages to Poland, Kverdokk, “Negotiating Pasts.”
8 Wollaston, “Negotiating the Marketplace.”
9 Boschki, Reichmann, and Schwendemann, “Education after & about Auschwitz.”
10 Bennett, Vibrant Matter, 3.
11 Ellsworth, Places of Learning, 16.
12 Cowan and Maitles, “Students from Scotland visiting Auschwitz”, Feldman, Youth Voyages to Poland.
13 Taylor, “Objects, Bodies and Space”. Mannion et al., “Place-responsive Pedagogy”. Svabo, “Portable Technologies”. Maurstad, “Relational Materialities in the Museum.”
14 Thrift, Non-Representational Theory. Passim.
15 Lorimer, “Cultural Geography,” 83.
16 Ibid., 83
17 Ball, “Teacher's Soul & Terrors of Performativity,” 215–6.
18 Bischoping, “Method & Meaning Holocaust-Knowledge Surveys”, Maitles and Cowan, “Teacher Responses to LFAP”, Stenhouse, Authority, Education and Emancipation.
19 Cowan and Maitles, “Teaching Controversial Issues”, Short, “Learning from Genocide?”.
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21 Stevick and Michaels, “Empirical & Normative Foundations.”
22 Chapman and Hale, “Understanding What Young People Know.”
23 Gray, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education, 43.
24 Ibid., 55.
25 Taylor, “Objects, Bodies and Space,” 692.
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27 Fenwick and Landri, “Socio-material Assemblages in Education.”
28 Ibid.
29 Sørensen, Materiality of Learning.
30 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, 409.
31 Law, Collateral Realities, 1–2.
32 Law, Pinboards and Books: Juxtaposing, Learning and Materiality.
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34 Ibid.
35 Sørensen, Materiality of Learning.
36 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Protecting Fundamental Rights During the Economic Crisis – Working Paper December 2010, 17.
37 Ibid., 113.
38 Ibid., 99.
39 Mol, Ontology in Medical Practice.
40 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.
41 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Grinberg, “Researching the Pedagogical Apparatus.”
42 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.
43 Ibid., 88–90.
44 Bischoping, “Method & Meaning Holocaust-Knowledge Surveys.”
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50 Dwork and Van Pelt, Auschwitz: 1270 to Present.
51 Białecka et al., EU Pack for Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau.
52 Cowan and Maitles, “Students from Scotland Visiting Auschwitz.”
53 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Protecting Fundamental Rights During the Economic Crisis – Working Paper December 2010.
54 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.
55 Levi, If This is a Man.
56 Ellsworth, Places of Learning, 111.
57 Horton and Kraftl, “Materials, Spacings, Bodies, Situations”, Philo and Parr, “Institutional Geographies.”
58 Law and Mol, “Situating Technoscience,” 611.
59 Massey, For Space.
60 Creswell, Research Design.
61 Strathern, “Cutting the Network.”
62 Ibid.
63 Horton and Kraftl, “More-than-Usefulness.”
64 Sørensen, Materiality of Learning, 28, Horton and Kraftl, “More-than-Usefulness.”
65 Kuntz and Presnall, “Wandering the Tactical.”
66 Thrift, Non-Representational Theory, 9–10.
67 McCormack, “Diagramming Practice and Performance”, Morton, “Performing Ethnography”, Parr, “New Body-geographies,” 160.
68 Cook and Crang, Doing Ethnographies, Thrift, Spatial Formations.
69 Levi, If This is a Man.
70 Law, After Method, 6.
71 Morton, “Performing Ethnography.”
72 Rose, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials, 3.
73 Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography, 10.
74 Law and Mol, “Situating Technoscience”, Law, After Method.
75 Roth, “Knowledge Diffusion.”
76 Clarke, “Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis.”
77 Latour, Reassembling the Social, Reinertsen and Otterstad, “Being Data and Datadream/ing.”
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79 Denzin, “Critical Performance Pedagogy”, Horton and Kraftl, “Materials, Spacings, Bodies, Situations”, Kincheloe, “Describing the Bricolage.”
80 Noy, “Aesthetics of Qualitative (Re)search,” 919.
81 Ross and Mannion, “Curriculum Making,” 310–11.
82 Law, Pinboards and Books: Juxtaposing, Learning and Materiality.
83 Brown and Waterhouse-Watson, “Digital Media in Holocaust Museums.”
84 ITF/ Taskforce for International Cooperation on Holocaust education, Recommendations for Study Tours to Holocaust-Related Sites. Stockholm: ITF, 10.
85 Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.
86 Svabo, “Portable Technologies,” 136.
87 Ibid., 141.
88 Cole, “Survivors’ Return Visits.”
89 Svabo, “Portable Technologies,” 144.
90 Ibid.
91 Law, Collateral Realities, 1.
92 Kacorzyk, “Appropriate Behaviour.”
93 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum [ABSM], Rules for Visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Oświęcim: ABSM. Non-paginated.
94 Law, After Method.
95 Mol, Ontology in Medical Practice.
96 Svabo, “Portable Technologies,” 136.
97 Law and Mol, “Situating Technoscience,” 610.
98 Ibid., 611.
99 Svabo, “Portable Technologies,” 614.
100 Ibid., 610.
101 Law, Collateral Realities. 1Svabo, “Portable technologies.”
102 Law, Collateral Realities, 1.
103 Law, After Method, 104.
104 Kacorzyk, “Appropriate Behaviour.”
105 Ibid.
106 Ingold, “Footprints through the Weather-world,” 61.
107 Ibid, Williams, Memorial Museums, Wollaston, “Negotiating the Marketplace.”
108 Law, After Method.
109 Young, Texture of Memory.
110 Massey, For Space.
111 Ibid.
112 Eaglestone, Holocaust and the Postmodern, Katz, “Eastern European Revisionism”, Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, Lipstadt, Holocaust: An American Understanding, Shermer and Grobman, Denying History.
113 Gray, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education, Lazar and Hirsch, “Online Partner for Holocaust Education.”
114 Storr, “‘No More Than 50,000 People Died Here’.”
115 Massey, For Space.
116 Ibid.
117 Wibberley, “Getting to Grips with Bricolage.”
118 Spry, “Handbook of Qualitative Research.”
119 Van Vuuren and Cooren, “Considering Agency of Attitudes.”
120 Massey, “Geographies of Responsibility”, Massey, For Space.
121 Law, Pinboards and Books: Juxtaposing, Learning and Materiality.
122 Williams, Memorial Museums.