COEHP PROFESSOR EDITS BOOK ON HOLOCAUST

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A recently released book co-edited by Samuel Totten, UA professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Health Professions, has been recognized internationally as a valuable resource for teachers. Teaching and Studying the Holocaust was co-edited by Totten and Stephen Feinberg, Director of National Outreach in the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Barry van Driel, Coordinator of International Teacher Education at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, recommends Teaching and Studying the Holocaust as an aid to teachers in addressing "the complex and sometimes overwhelming history of the Holocaust."

The book, van Driel said, "succeeds in showing teachers very clearly how the study of the Holocaust is not just a topic for history teachers, but for teachers across the curriculum."

The book’s 13 chapters were written by some of the most noted Holocaust educators in the United States. Chapters cover such topics as using primary documents; choosing holocaust literature for early adolescents; and including art, drama and music in Holocaust study. The book includes an annotated bibliography especially designed for educators.

"Dr. Totten has earned an international reputation as an expert on genocide and the Holocaust," COEHP dean Sharon B. Hunt said. "We are especially proud of his contributions to meeting the challenges of educating young people about the Holocaust."

Totten is the editor of several noteworthy texts on the Holocaust, including Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (1997), Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony (1995), and First Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century (1991).

He has also served as an editor and contributor for many academic journals and has written numerous articles and essays on various aspects of genocide as well as genocide and Holocaust education. Most recently Totten served as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio Press, 2000).

In addition to Teaching and Studying the Holocaust, Totten has edited the soon-to-be-released text Teaching Holocaust Literature (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 2001). He is currently at work on Pioneers of Genocide Studies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Totten, who earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1985, has been a member of the University of Arkansas faculty since 1987.

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