erinnern.at

The association erinnern.at (dedicated to keeping the memory of national socialism and the Holocaust alive) is a project initiated by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture designed for teachers at Austrian schools.

Its goal is to promote the transfer of historic and methodic/didactic knowledge and illustrate the relevance of this knowledge to the present. Students are supposed to both learn and be ethically sensitized.

The project has been divided into different levels on which the topics of national socialism and the Holocaust are discussed:

• The decentralized networks in individual federal states collaborate on the local/regional level.
• Seminars form the basis of discussion on the national level.
• Seminars in Israel illustrate the dimensions of international discourse.
• Developing teaching materials in cooperation with experts from the fields of research and didactics.

Goals

• Intensifying the structuring the discussion on national socialism and the Holocaust in the educational sector
• Studying the Holocaust and the phenomenon of national socialism must be relevant to the students’ current lives without making the topic random by pedagogizing the issue.

Target group(s)

• Teachers of all subjects at all types of schools
• Principles for teachers to follow

In order to help them develop their values further, students must be taken seriously in their capacity as individuals who independently acquire historical awareness.

As a consequence, it will be particularly important to evaluate the students’ group activities and discuss the results with the respective groups.