Rethinking Holocaust Education with Teacher Trainers

This chapter explores how educators should be trained to teach about the Holocaust through consideration of three questions, (1) What are the outcomes and key trends of Holocaust education today? (2) What should Holocaust education for pre-service teachers look like? and (3) How can Colleges of Education best prepare pre-service teachers to teach about the Holocaust in the twenty-first century? Recommendations for improving teacher education about the Holocaust include integrating Holocaust education throughout existing curricula, focusing on enhanced content knowledge, approaching the subject in interdisciplinary ways, and developing core Holocaust education coursework for pre-service teachers.