Democratic Pilgrimage: Swedish Students' Understanding of Study Trips to Holocaust Memorial Sites

Autor/inn/en	Flennegård, Ola; Mattsson, Christer
Titel	Democratic Pilgrimage: Swedish Students' Understanding of Study Trips to Holocaust Memorial Sites
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 75 (2023) 3, S.429-446 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Flennegård, Ola) ORCID (Mattsson, Christer)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
DOI	10.1080/00131911.2021.1931040
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; Grade 8; Jews; Death; War; European History; Crime; Field Trips; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Positive Attitudes; Concept Formation; Expectation; Time Perspective; Geographic Location; Discourse Analysis; Learning Processes; Poland; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Krieg; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Exkursion; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Zeitbezug; Diskursanalyse; Learning process; Lernprozess; Polen; Schweden
Abstract	This article focuses on Swedish students' understanding of study trips to Holocaust memorial sites. Although about a quarter of all Swedish teenagers visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum each year, with the majority visiting as students as part of their school curriculum, this study is the first to examine these study trips from a student perspective. By applying critical discourse analysis, this article analyses 49 students' reflections, written before, during, and after two study trips. The results suggest that the study trips' discursive practice, which constitutes and is constituted by the study trips' social practice, is regulated by a discursive order termed "democratic pilgrimage." In addition, this article reveals two didactic deviations from previous research on study trips: the students' positive feelings in relation to the Polish environment and the balance between victim and perpetrator perspectives. The latter creates tension within the students and is solved via articulations of democratic values. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01