Teaching With Documents: The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs

The Poisonous Mushroom was a collection of 17 short stories by the Nazi writer Ernst Hiemer, with pictures by the Nazi artist Fips.

Der Giftpilz, the German word for toadstool, was a publication of Julius Streicher's publishing house. It was aimed particularly at kids, and was sometimes used in the schools. In each case, the caption under the picture is translated to the right. In several cases, there is a link to a translation of the story that accompanied the picture.

This is the first of three anti-Semitic children's books published by Julius Streicher's Stürmer Publishing House. They are among the nastier productions of the Third Reich. Around 100,000 copies were printed, and the book was used in many schools.

Totally agree with you David. And it's not until you put it quite simply that I then began to question how I learnt history and then how I teach it or facilite the desire within the students to yearn for more. I remember learning the facts, the dates and then somehow, my ideas and opinions were formed from these. My high school teachers taught the basics, with some brilliant stories thrown in to keep the interest going. There certainly was no fancy techno stuff and docos were a rarity, so my teachers were left with endless OHTs, copious amounts of notes on the board and very limited text books and handouts. I do remember a lot of source analysis, summarising and of course essays, but multi modal was never heard of.

Uni was very dry. Book after book and more copious amounts of notes to take from lecturers that had verbal diahorea. Discussions were often focused around the why aspect and I certainly remember nothing of an opinion being taught as we seem to have work programs dictate now. I believe I still teach old school with some new thrown in. Students need the basic facts, definite source analysis and then let them make up their own opinions. The individual is always more fascinating than the society, so we actually pamper to a society of students who are no longer encouraged to think for themselves. Yes, I do believe we teach minority sufferage but there is always a way around it...let's bring back the basics to create a culture of students who are passionate about history because of the facts and not a forced taught opinion...

Thanks for all the great websites...I have certainly used many and refered some on to students..

Merry Christmas,

Lisa