This research examines the interaction between international governmental organizations (IGOs) and national governments around the development of secondary social studies curriculum in post-genocide contexts, with a special focus on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) involvement with secondary social…

This article addresses how far educational institutions have come in designing authentic and meaningful curricula for teaching the Holocaust at the secondary level. Examined in this article are the historical development of Holocaust education in the United States, with a focus on the state of Illinois as a case study, what contributes to the…

Five-tiered conceptual model of a course on the history of the Holocaust is presented. The Holocaust is outlined in historical perspective as an example of inhumanity to humans, as a unique event in world history, as social science process, and as a moral and ethical problem. (MLW)