Geoffrey Short
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Short |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Short |
| SIGNATURE | SHORT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7858-8022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding and teaching Holocaust education
Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles have written a book that deserves to be widely read, for its diverse and sometimes controversial content enables those who teach the Holocaust in schools to think more
Reluctant learners? Muslim youth confront the Holocaust
There is good reason to believe that anti-Semitism is rife in Muslim communities across the world. Consequently, one might expect that teaching the Holocaust in schools with a substantial Muslim presence would prove a difficult and stressful experience. In this article, I draw on a diverse body of literature to argue for a more nuanced approach to understanding how Muslim students engage with the Holocaust. I show that while many of them have a p…
Teaching the Holocaust in Predominantly Muslim Schools
Investigations into how the Holocaust is taught in UK secondary schools have tended to focus on problems resulting from inappropriate teaching, inadequate resourcing or the allocation of insufficient time. No research has examined how aspects of the student body, such as its ethno-religious identity, might frustrate the efforts of teachers. This lack of research is troubling, for if, as has been claimed, antisemitism is spreading among the UK’s M…
Children’s Constructions of Their National Identity: Implications for Critical Multiculturalism
Despite the need for pedagogic interventions to counter the influence of racism, ethnocentrism and xenophobia, such measures continue to be criticized by neoconservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United Kingdom, since the late 1980s, the influential cultural restorationist wing of the New Right has not only derided and lampooned such interventions, but has sought to impose its own narrow, exclusivist and cultural-racist construction …
Learning from genocide? A study in the failure of Holocaust education
The importance of learning lessons from the Holocaust and from the mass slaughter in Rwanda was recognised in the theme underpinning Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day in 2004. This article is principally concerned with the lessons learnt from the Holocaust by a culturally diverse group of students aged 14 to 16. They all attended schools in an outer London borough and were interviewed after taking part in a local event held to mark the 2004 commem…
Faith Schools and Social Cohesion: Opening up the Debate
In February 2001, the British government announced its willingness to expand the number of faith schools where there was 'clear local demand'. Predictably, the decision aroused widespread controversy, with much of the criticism centring on the allegedly divisive nature of such schools; segregated education was seen by some detractors as inevitably posing a threat to social cohesion. This article engages with the charge of divisiveness, arguing th…
Jewish Primary Schools in a Multicultural Society: Responding to diversity
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713429021 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis [Full text of this article not available in the UHRA]
Faith–Based Schools: A Threat To Social Cohesion
‘The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '. Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.00295 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Confronting the Holocaust in Religious Education
Studies of Holocaust education in secondary schools have tended to focus on how the subject is taught as part of the history curriculum. Comparatively little work of either a theoretical or an empirical nature has looked at how the subject is handled in other curricular areas. Religious education is a case in point, for the field is marked both by a dearth of literature on appropriate content and by a virtual absence of research on teachers' prac…
Confronting the Holocaust in Religious Education
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713429021 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
The Recruitment of New Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups
This article reports on part of a larger, ongoing two-year investigation supported by the Teacher Training Agency into the recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds via Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in England. The authors focus here on interviews with admissions tutors, course directors and other senior staff at teacher training institutions. The interviews revealed differences between institutions in th…
Recruitment of New Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups
This article reports on part of a larger, ongoing two-year investigation supported by the Teacher Training Agency into the recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds via Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in England.The authors focus here on interviews with admissions tutors, course directors and other senior staff at teacher training institutions.The interviews revealed differences between institutions in the …
The role of the Holocaust in antiracist education: A view from the United Kingdom
The failure of antiracist educators in the United Kingdom to engage seriously with the issue of anti‐Semitism provides the background to this article. With specific reference to the Holocaust, it argues that a lack of interest among antiracists in how the subject is taught has had a number of adverse consequences. These include the forfeiture of a potent vehicle for reinforcing and advancing the aims of antiracism and the loss of the unique contr…
Ethiopian Children in Israeli Schools: The prospects for successful integration
In this paper I examine the prospects of Ethiopian children integrating successfully into the Israeli school system. My specific concern is that the children will experience in Israel the same sort of difficulties that beset Afro-Caribbean children in Britain when assimilation and later integration were the dominant concerns of educational policy makers. With particular reference to the Rampton and Swann reports, comparisons between the two group…
Minorities in conflict: The politics of distraction
Retain, relinquish or revise: The future for multicultural education
The recently revived debate between proponents of multicultural and antiracist education provides the starting point for this paper. Whilst not advocating an exclusively multicultural focus, the paper nonetheless seeks to defend multiculturalism against its antiracist critics. It does so in two ways. The first is by showing that the criticisms of its central tenets are either trivial, misguided or equally applicable to antiracist education. The s…
Teaching the Holocaust: The relevance of children's perceptions of Jewish culture and identity
The Holocaust is now part of the history curriculum for all 11‐14‐year olds in maintained schools in England and Wales. In this paper it is argued that for the Holocaust to be taught effectively, teachers will need to have some idea of how children within this age group perceive Jewish culture and identity. The empirical core of the paper attempts to go some way towards meeting this need. Seventy‐two children aged between 12 and 14 were interview…
Accounting for Success: The Education of Jewish Children in Late 19th Century England
Accounting for success: The education of Jewish children in late 19th century England
Prejudice Reduction in Schools: The value of inter‐racial contact
This paper is centrally concerned with criticism of inter‐racial contact as a means of improving race relations. It aims, amongst other things, to highlight the damaging implications of the criticism on practices hitherto thought useful in combating racial prejudice. The main focus of the paper is the charge that a reduction in prejudice towards individual members of a group does not transfer to the group as a whole. It is argued that whilst ther…
Prejudice, Power and Racism: Some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education
Journal Article Prejudice, Power and Racism: some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education Get access Geoffrey Short Geoffrey Short Correspondence: Geoffrey Short, School of Education, Hatfield Polytechnic, Wall Hall Campus, Aldenham, Watford, Herts WD2 8AT, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 25, Issue 1, July 1991, Pages 5–…
Combatting Anti-Semitism: A Dilemma for Anti-Racist Education
Combatting anti‐Semitism: A dilemma for anti‐racist education
Books
Marq de Villiers, White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990, 420 pp., £5.99 p.b. M Cross, J Wrench and S Barnett, Ethnic Minorities and the Careers Service: An Investigation into Processes of Assessment and Placement Research Paper No 73, London: Department of Employment 1990, 150 pp., (free). N Jewson, D Mason, S Waters and J Harvey, Ethnic Minoritie…
Policy or presentation? The psychology of anti-racist education
In this paper, we outline a number of strategies to obviate resistance to anti‐racist education, especially in ‘all‐white’ areas. Drawing upon psychological research on attitude formation and change, we argue that there is a clear need to re‐think the packaging and targeting of such policies in order to broaden their appeal. It is our contention that anti‐racists must now stress that their educational philosophy is entirely compatible with a demo…
Faith–Based Schools: A Threat To Social Cohesion
‘The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '. Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.00295 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Learning from genocide? A study in the failure of Holocaust education
The importance of learning lessons from the Holocaust and from the mass slaughter in Rwanda was recognised in the theme underpinning Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day in 2004. This article is principally concerned with the lessons learnt from the Holocaust by a culturally diverse group of students aged 14 to 16. They all attended schools in an outer London borough and were interviewed after taking part in a local event held to mark the 2004 commem…
Reluctant learners? Muslim youth confront the Holocaust
There is good reason to believe that anti-Semitism is rife in Muslim communities across the world. Consequently, one might expect that teaching the Holocaust in schools with a substantial Muslim presence would prove a difficult and stressful experience. In this article, I draw on a diverse body of literature to argue for a more nuanced approach to understanding how Muslim students engage with the Holocaust. I show that while many of them have a p…
Combatting anti‐Semitism: A dilemma for anti‐racist education
The Recruitment of New Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups
This article reports on part of a larger, ongoing two-year investigation supported by the Teacher Training Agency into the recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds via Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in England. The authors focus here on interviews with admissions tutors, course directors and other senior staff at teacher training institutions. The interviews revealed differences between institutions in th…
Prejudice, Power and Racism: Some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education
Journal Article Prejudice, Power and Racism: some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education Get access Geoffrey Short Geoffrey Short Correspondence: Geoffrey Short, School of Education, Hatfield Polytechnic, Wall Hall Campus, Aldenham, Watford, Herts WD2 8AT, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 25, Issue 1, July 1991, Pages 5–…
Breakthrough to political literacy: Political education, antiracist teaching and the primary school
Although the Swann Committee's Report on the education of children from ethnic minority groups in Great Britain (1985) generally embraces a cultural pluralist rather than antiracist perspective on education, it nevertheless acknowledges that all schools (irrespective of phase, ethnic composition or location) should play a more active role in challenging manifestations of racism at both individual and institutional level. The Report advocates that…
Ethiopian Children in Israeli Schools: The prospects for successful integration
In this paper I examine the prospects of Ethiopian children integrating successfully into the Israeli school system. My specific concern is that the children will experience in Israel the same sort of difficulties that beset Afro-Caribbean children in Britain when assimilation and later integration were the dominant concerns of educational policy makers. With particular reference to the Rampton and Swann reports, comparisons between the two group…
Minorities in conflict: The politics of distraction
Teaching the Holocaust: The relevance of children's perceptions of Jewish culture and identity
The Holocaust is now part of the history curriculum for all 11‐14‐year olds in maintained schools in England and Wales. In this paper it is argued that for the Holocaust to be taught effectively, teachers will need to have some idea of how children within this age group perceive Jewish culture and identity. The empirical core of the paper attempts to go some way towards meeting this need. Seventy‐two children aged between 12 and 14 were interview…
Prejudice Reduction in Schools: The value of inter‐racial contact
This paper is centrally concerned with criticism of inter‐racial contact as a means of improving race relations. It aims, amongst other things, to highlight the damaging implications of the criticism on practices hitherto thought useful in combating racial prejudice. The main focus of the paper is the charge that a reduction in prejudice towards individual members of a group does not transfer to the group as a whole. It is argued that whilst ther…
Combatting Anti-Semitism: A Dilemma for Anti-Racist Education
Breakthrough to political literacy: Political education, antiracist teaching and the primary school
Although the Swann Committee's Report on the education of children from ethnic minority groups in Great Britain (1985) generally embraces a cultural pluralist rather than antiracist perspective on education, it nevertheless acknowledges that all schools (irrespective of phase, ethnic composition or location) should play a more active role in challenging manifestations of racism at both individual and institutional level. The Report advocates that…
Policy or presentation? The psychology of anti-racist education
In this paper, we outline a number of strategies to obviate resistance to anti‐racist education, especially in ‘all‐white’ areas. Drawing upon psychological research on attitude formation and change, we argue that there is a clear need to re‐think the packaging and targeting of such policies in order to broaden their appeal. It is our contention that anti‐racists must now stress that their educational philosophy is entirely compatible with a demo…
Prejudice, Power and Racism: Some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education
Journal Article Prejudice, Power and Racism: some reflections on the anti-racist critique of multi-cultural education Get access Geoffrey Short Geoffrey Short Correspondence: Geoffrey Short, School of Education, Hatfield Polytechnic, Wall Hall Campus, Aldenham, Watford, Herts WD2 8AT, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 25, Issue 1, July 1991, Pages 5–…
Combatting Anti-Semitism: A Dilemma for Anti-Racist Education
Combatting anti‐Semitism: A dilemma for anti‐racist education
Books
Marq de Villiers, White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990, 420 pp., £5.99 p.b. M Cross, J Wrench and S Barnett, Ethnic Minorities and the Careers Service: An Investigation into Processes of Assessment and Placement Research Paper No 73, London: Department of Employment 1990, 150 pp., (free). N Jewson, D Mason, S Waters and J Harvey, Ethnic Minoritie…
Accounting for Success: The Education of Jewish Children in Late 19th Century England
Accounting for success: The education of Jewish children in late 19th century England
Prejudice Reduction in Schools: The value of inter‐racial contact
This paper is centrally concerned with criticism of inter‐racial contact as a means of improving race relations. It aims, amongst other things, to highlight the damaging implications of the criticism on practices hitherto thought useful in combating racial prejudice. The main focus of the paper is the charge that a reduction in prejudice towards individual members of a group does not transfer to the group as a whole. It is argued that whilst ther…
Retain, relinquish or revise: The future for multicultural education
The recently revived debate between proponents of multicultural and antiracist education provides the starting point for this paper. Whilst not advocating an exclusively multicultural focus, the paper nonetheless seeks to defend multiculturalism against its antiracist critics. It does so in two ways. The first is by showing that the criticisms of its central tenets are either trivial, misguided or equally applicable to antiracist education. The s…
Teaching the Holocaust: The relevance of children's perceptions of Jewish culture and identity
The Holocaust is now part of the history curriculum for all 11‐14‐year olds in maintained schools in England and Wales. In this paper it is argued that for the Holocaust to be taught effectively, teachers will need to have some idea of how children within this age group perceive Jewish culture and identity. The empirical core of the paper attempts to go some way towards meeting this need. Seventy‐two children aged between 12 and 14 were interview…
Ethiopian Children in Israeli Schools: The prospects for successful integration
In this paper I examine the prospects of Ethiopian children integrating successfully into the Israeli school system. My specific concern is that the children will experience in Israel the same sort of difficulties that beset Afro-Caribbean children in Britain when assimilation and later integration were the dominant concerns of educational policy makers. With particular reference to the Rampton and Swann reports, comparisons between the two group…
Minorities in conflict: The politics of distraction
The role of the Holocaust in antiracist education: A view from the United Kingdom
The failure of antiracist educators in the United Kingdom to engage seriously with the issue of anti‐Semitism provides the background to this article. With specific reference to the Holocaust, it argues that a lack of interest among antiracists in how the subject is taught has had a number of adverse consequences. These include the forfeiture of a potent vehicle for reinforcing and advancing the aims of antiracism and the loss of the unique contr…
The Recruitment of New Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups
This article reports on part of a larger, ongoing two-year investigation supported by the Teacher Training Agency into the recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds via Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in England. The authors focus here on interviews with admissions tutors, course directors and other senior staff at teacher training institutions. The interviews revealed differences between institutions in th…
Recruitment of New Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups
This article reports on part of a larger, ongoing two-year investigation supported by the Teacher Training Agency into the recruitment of new teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds via Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) courses in England.The authors focus here on interviews with admissions tutors, course directors and other senior staff at teacher training institutions.The interviews revealed differences between institutions in the …
Confronting the Holocaust in Religious Education
Studies of Holocaust education in secondary schools have tended to focus on how the subject is taught as part of the history curriculum. Comparatively little work of either a theoretical or an empirical nature has looked at how the subject is handled in other curricular areas. Religious education is a case in point, for the field is marked both by a dearth of literature on appropriate content and by a virtual absence of research on teachers' prac…
Confronting the Holocaust in Religious Education
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713429021 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Jewish Primary Schools in a Multicultural Society: Responding to diversity
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713429021 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis [Full text of this article not available in the UHRA]
Faith–Based Schools: A Threat To Social Cohesion
‘The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '. Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.00295 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Faith Schools and Social Cohesion: Opening up the Debate
In February 2001, the British government announced its willingness to expand the number of faith schools where there was 'clear local demand'. Predictably, the decision aroused widespread controversy, with much of the criticism centring on the allegedly divisive nature of such schools; segregated education was seen by some detractors as inevitably posing a threat to social cohesion. This article engages with the charge of divisiveness, arguing th…
Children’s Constructions of Their National Identity: Implications for Critical Multiculturalism
Despite the need for pedagogic interventions to counter the influence of racism, ethnocentrism and xenophobia, such measures continue to be criticized by neoconservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United Kingdom, since the late 1980s, the influential cultural restorationist wing of the New Right has not only derided and lampooned such interventions, but has sought to impose its own narrow, exclusivist and cultural-racist construction …
Learning from genocide? A study in the failure of Holocaust education
The importance of learning lessons from the Holocaust and from the mass slaughter in Rwanda was recognised in the theme underpinning Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day in 2004. This article is principally concerned with the lessons learnt from the Holocaust by a culturally diverse group of students aged 14 to 16. They all attended schools in an outer London borough and were interviewed after taking part in a local event held to mark the 2004 commem…
Teaching the Holocaust in Predominantly Muslim Schools
Investigations into how the Holocaust is taught in UK secondary schools have tended to focus on problems resulting from inappropriate teaching, inadequate resourcing or the allocation of insufficient time. No research has examined how aspects of the student body, such as its ethno-religious identity, might frustrate the efforts of teachers. This lack of research is troubling, for if, as has been claimed, antisemitism is spreading among the UK’s M…
Reluctant learners? Muslim youth confront the Holocaust
There is good reason to believe that anti-Semitism is rife in Muslim communities across the world. Consequently, one might expect that teaching the Holocaust in schools with a substantial Muslim presence would prove a difficult and stressful experience. In this article, I draw on a diverse body of literature to argue for a more nuanced approach to understanding how Muslim students engage with the Holocaust. I show that while many of them have a p…
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