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The Touch of the Past

Remembrance, Learning and Ethics

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  • © 2005

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  1. Roger I. Simon
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction Remembering Otherwise: Civic Life and the Pedagogical Promise of Historical Memory

    • Roger I. Simon
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary

    • Roger I. Simon
    Pages 14-31

  4. Pedagogy and the Call to Witnessing Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion

    • Roger I. Simon
    Pages 32-49

  5. Remembering Obligation: Witnessing Testimonies of Historical Trauma

    • Roger I. Simon, Claudia Eppert
    Pages 50-64

  6. Beyond the Logic of Emblemization: Remembering and Learning from the Montréal Massacre

    • Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg
    Pages 65-86

  7. The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory

    • Roger I. Simon
    Pages 87-103

  8. Witness as Study: The Difficult Inheritance of Testimony

    • Roger I. Simon, Claudia Eppert, Mark Clamen, Laura Beres
    Pages 104-131

  9. Remembrance as Praxis and the Ethics of the Interhuman

    • Roger I. Simon, Mario Di Paolantonio, Mark Clamen
    Pages 132-155

  10. The Audiovisual Supplement of Holocaust Survivor Video Testimony

    • Roger I. Simon
    Pages 156-172

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 173-192
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About this book

In Roger Simon's new collection based on ten years of research, the respected scholar reminds us that historically traumatic events simultaneously summon forgetting and remembrance in unique ways. The Touch of the Past explores the ways in which remembrance, consciousness, and history affect how students learn and educators teach. Simon examines how testimonies of historic events influence learning and how communities deal with collective memory. A serious contribution to the research in education and memory and trauma studies from a top philosopher in the field.

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"Roger Simon's pioneering work is distinguished by profound attention to ethical relations of learning, deep theoretical knowledge, and a demanding theoretical exposition. . . . [The Touch of the Past] is a major contribution to the cultural studies of pedagogy and ethics . . . [it is a] text of great distinction . . . rigorous in its scholarly commitment and profound in its topic." - Deborah P. Britzman, Professor of Education, York University, and author of After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning.

About the author

ROGER I. SIMON is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies and Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto, Canada. He is Director, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada.

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