The possibilities of school trips: what can study visits to historical sites like Auschwitz-Birkenau contribute to history education?

Posted by Mikael Berg and Martin Stolare on 2024-05-22

In our article for History Education Research Journal, we examine what possibilities exist for students to learn through encounters with historical sites, such as the Holocaust camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau. We investigated this issue through the pre- and post-visit work of a group of Swedish students who took a school trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The empirical analysis of the students' responses in [...]

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