Playing with Memory

in Private Montreal Jewish Schools

Sivane Hirsch & Valérie Amiraux

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières & Université de Montréal

Sivane Hirsch is a Professor at the Department of Education at the University of Quebec at Trois –Rivières (UQTR). She holds a PhD in sociology (Paris- Descartes, Sorbonne) and in education (Université Laval, Canada) and is particularly interested in the place religious and cultural diversity occupy in schools and how their manifestations contribute to students’ identity as well as the relations between ethnic communities. She is also documenting the challenges teachers face when treating social acute questions in regards to religious matters in classrooms.

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

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