Facing History Seminar Highlighted in Swedish Newspaper

November 8, 2009

Facing History and Ourselves was recently highlighted in the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. For the article, reporter Henrik Berggren, attend a portion of the week-long Facing History seminar held for educators in Sweden, in partnership with the Living History Forum. 

View the article online in Dagens Nyheter in Swedish.


Below we have included a caption from the article, translated into English:
"It is not quite easy to summarize. The main idea is to have students reflect about racism, prejudice, and antisemitism from studies of the Holocaust and other genocides. This may sound heavy and abstract. But to the contrary, it is both personally engaging and intellectually challenging. The pedagogy builds on case studies - about the Holocaust, Rwanda, South Africa, American racism, International Criminal Courts, mobbing - mixing psychology, history, philosophy law, and daily morals."