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      ‘We too find it difficult’: A consideration of site-based Holocaust education as emotional labour

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      History Education Research Journal
      UCL Press
      Holocaust education, emotional labour, emotion work, history teachers, Auschwitz-Birkenau

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          Abstract

          Among the growing body of literature concerning teaching and learning about the Holocaust, very little research has explored the experiences of teachers from an emotional perspective. This study considers the emotion work done by educators who are teaching about the Holocaust at the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Through the lens of ‘emotional labour’, the study explores how the educators articulate their emotion work, and how they manage their emotions in situ. The findings reveal a complex interplay of emotion work and self-preservation that results in educators variously altering the extent to which they are ‘present’ and how they choose to withdraw themselves emotionally from certain exhibits or spaces at the museum. The study also reveals the benefits of the informal emotional support network that exists between the educators, as well as the various routines they adopt to help them manage their emotion work. It is argued that the findings of this paper highlight a need for further research into how teachers teach about emotionally difficult histories such as this, in similar and more diverse contexts.

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                Journal
                herj
                History Education Research Journal
                UCL Press (UK )
                2631-9713
                19 October 2021
                : 18
                : 2
                : 247-263
                Affiliations
                [1]University of Winchester, UK
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9211-8003
                Article
                10.14324/HERJ.18.2.07
                a4281860-0b23-4b0b-a9e1-224972376708
                Copyright © 2021 Richardson

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 16 January 2021
                : 21 June 2021
                Page count
                References: 65, Pages: 18

                Educational research & Statistics,General education,History
                emotion work,history teachers,emotional labour,Holocaust education,Auschwitz-Birkenau

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