Alasdair Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alasdair Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alasdair |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9211-8003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossing Borders
This paper considers the presence and potential educational impact of national exhibitions within the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum in Poland. It takes a constructivist, personal-theoretical approach, drawing from autoethnography to explore possible visitor experiences at two of the national exhibits. Through detailed reflection on the French exhibition (Block 20) and the Dutch exhibition (Block 21), the author conducts a thematic analysis on t…
Introduction
The fields of Holocaust Education and Holocaust Studies almost exclusively foreground the voices of professional academics. Practitioners are often the subjects of research, or the anticipated audience for it. The collection of papers gathered in this Special Edition aims to go some way to address this imbalance through foregrounding the voices of practitioner researchers (specifically teachers of students aged 11–18). The papers present good exa…
Touching distance
This article explores young people’s experiences of hearing first-hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor during a government-funded educational programme in the UK. The study considers Holocaust Education in the UK and the prevalence of survivor speakers in classrooms. It then presents findings from 14 semi-structured interviews and 44 online surveys exploring young people’s experiences of hearing in-person testimony from a Holocaust survivor. …
Lighting Candles in the Darkness
Every year around 3000 British school pupils and teachers visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as participants on a Lessons from Auschwitz Project organized by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Each visit ends with a memorial ceremony held at the end of the railway tracks at Birkenau. This article analyses interview and survey data from participating students and educators to explore their experiences of these ceremonies. The research finding…
Site-seeing
This paper considers how the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum is experienced by teenage visitors on organized visits with the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK). The findings presented are based on semi-structured interviews with twelve 17 year olds, exploring their emotional engagement with the sites and how they perceive and understand this emotional interaction. The findings suggest that young people experience their visit in a variety of ways, a…
Touching distance
This article explores young people’s experiences of hearing first-hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor during a government-funded educational programme in the UK. The study considers Holocaust Education in the UK and the prevalence of survivor speakers in classrooms. It then presents findings from 14 semi-structured interviews and 44 online surveys exploring young people’s experiences of hearing in-person testimony from a Holocaust survivor. …
Site-seeing
This paper considers how the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum is experienced by teenage visitors on organized visits with the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK). The findings presented are based on semi-structured interviews with twelve 17 year olds, exploring their emotional engagement with the sites and how they perceive and understand this emotional interaction. The findings suggest that young people experience their visit in a variety of ways, a…
Site-seeing
This paper considers how the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum is experienced by teenage visitors on organized visits with the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK). The findings presented are based on semi-structured interviews with twelve 17 year olds, exploring their emotional engagement with the sites and how they perceive and understand this emotional interaction. The findings suggest that young people experience their visit in a variety of ways, a…
Touching distance
This article explores young people’s experiences of hearing first-hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor during a government-funded educational programme in the UK. The study considers Holocaust Education in the UK and the prevalence of survivor speakers in classrooms. It then presents findings from 14 semi-structured interviews and 44 online surveys exploring young people’s experiences of hearing in-person testimony from a Holocaust survivor. …
Lighting Candles in the Darkness
Every year around 3000 British school pupils and teachers visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as participants on a Lessons from Auschwitz Project organized by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Each visit ends with a memorial ceremony held at the end of the railway tracks at Birkenau. This article analyses interview and survey data from participating students and educators to explore their experiences of these ceremonies. The research finding…
Introduction
The fields of Holocaust Education and Holocaust Studies almost exclusively foreground the voices of professional academics. Practitioners are often the subjects of research, or the anticipated audience for it. The collection of papers gathered in this Special Edition aims to go some way to address this imbalance through foregrounding the voices of practitioner researchers (specifically teachers of students aged 11–18). The papers present good exa…
Crossing Borders
This paper considers the presence and potential educational impact of national exhibitions within the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum in Poland. It takes a constructivist, personal-theoretical approach, drawing from autoethnography to explore possible visitor experiences at two of the national exhibits. Through detailed reflection on the French exhibition (Block 20) and the Dutch exhibition (Block 21), the author conducts a thematic analysis on t…
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · The Holocaust (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works)