TY - JOUR
T1 - An online partner for Holocaust remembrance education
T2 - students approaching the Yahoo! Answers community
AU - Lazar, Alon
AU - Litvak Hirsch, Tal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, © 2013 Educational Review.
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - Holocaust education has gained increased importance in recent decades and attention has latterly been directed to the role of the Internet within the field. Of major importance within the virtual space are Question and Answer communities. We investigated the interactions taking place within the Yahoo! Answers community following questions posted by students seeking help with their homework assignments, which required dealing with questions to ask a Holocaust survivor and writing an essay about Holocaust remembrance. The overall findings indicate that the majority of answerers responded willingly; however their answers are in most cases based upon their own views and reflect common notions, and are rarely accepted by askers. Yet several factors, among them the immense popularity of these communities, call for educators and scholars engaged in Holocaust remembrance education to develop closer acquaintance with this medium, which might play a considerable role in shaping the ways students approach Holocaust-related issues.
AB - Holocaust education has gained increased importance in recent decades and attention has latterly been directed to the role of the Internet within the field. Of major importance within the virtual space are Question and Answer communities. We investigated the interactions taking place within the Yahoo! Answers community following questions posted by students seeking help with their homework assignments, which required dealing with questions to ask a Holocaust survivor and writing an essay about Holocaust remembrance. The overall findings indicate that the majority of answerers responded willingly; however their answers are in most cases based upon their own views and reflect common notions, and are rarely accepted by askers. Yet several factors, among them the immense popularity of these communities, call for educators and scholars engaged in Holocaust remembrance education to develop closer acquaintance with this medium, which might play a considerable role in shaping the ways students approach Holocaust-related issues.
KW - Holocaust remembrance education
KW - computers and learning
KW - content analysis
KW - homework assignments
KW - online communities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920133996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00131911.2013.839545
DO - 10.1080/00131911.2013.839545
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84920133996
SN - 0013-1911
VL - 67
SP - 121
EP - 134
JO - Educational Review
JF - Educational Review
IS - 1
ER -