Open AccessLa Shoah nei recenti manuali di Storia per le scuole medie superiori di lingua italiana
Author(s) -
Sonia de Castro
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
didactica historica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2297-7465
DOI - 10.33055/didacticahistorica.2019.005.01.177
Subject(s) - persecution , the holocaust , humanities , subject (documents) , political science , art , library science , computer science , law , politics
The issue aims to analyse how the theme of the Shoah and the persecution of Jews is dealt with in recent history books for Italian high schools, currently used in class in secondary schools in the Canton Ticino. On the basis of certain criteria, such as the space assigned in terms of pages, the inclusion in the teaching programme, the presence of a reference to current events, it is possible to carry out a comparative analysis and launch a didactic reflection on the potential of the subject. The volumes that pay most attention to it are those that link the study of the Shoah and the persecution of the Jews to the education to citizenship and democratic values.