"Nunca mais para quem?" : os trabalhos de memória em um programa educacional sobre o Holocausto

Abstract

The dissertation presented aims to analyze the works of memory about the Holocaust in the educational program International March of The Living (MOTL). This program is a worldwide, Brazil included, two week trip for high school seniors to learn about the Holocaust trough a Zionist narrative by traveling to sites of concentration and death camps and Jewish historical sites in Poland and Israel, where it ends with the celebration of the day the State was founded. The guiding question of the project comes from the thought that an education commited with memory happens through the notion of denial of history as progress, this being Walter Benjamin’s vision of History. With that in mind, the project aims to understand how MOTL constructs Holocaust memory from its narrative and educational experience. The proposed methodology consists in qualitative exploratory research with bibliography review of international works about the program in the fields of experience, memory, and Philosophy of Education through Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and their commentators, combined with the author's own experience as a program monitor at a school in the city of Porto Alegre in 2013. Documental research about MOTL, its pedagogical framework, publications made on the program's websites, as for diary of travel memories are considered as well.