What can onto-epistemology reveal about Holocaust education? The case of audio-headsets at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Issue 3 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Henderson, Susan; Dombrowski, Lindsay
• Is Part Of: Holocaust studies. Volume 24:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 305
• Page End: 328
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: Excursion -- museum -- ontology -- epistemology -- Auschwitz; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 940.5318
• DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2017.1387846
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-4902

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article adopts onto-epistemological framework for investigating pedagogical practices, focusing on the specific context of Holocaust education excursions to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABSM) and focusing on pedagogy in and through audio-headsets. It is based on an extensive dataset collected through ethnographic-inspired observations at ABSM, and focusing particularly upon three school-based excursion groups (two Scottish, one Norwegian). Through processes of spatial ordering and intra-action, we argue that the relationships comprising 'things' (e.g. students, exhibitions in the Museum, knowledges about the Holocaust) can be explored as more-and-less visible.