Stories that Move
The online toolbox about diversity and discrimination
Expert voices
On this page you can find interviews with seven experts in pedagogy, who provided advice for Stories that Move.
- Rocky Hehakaija (Sports coach, Netherlands)
- Dr Joanna Talewicz (Cultural anthropologist, Poland)
- Dr Lutz van Dijk (Historian/educator, South Africa)
- Paul Salmons (Historian, UK)
- Monique Eckmann (Sociologist, Switzerland)
- Elke Gryglewski (Historian/educator, Germany)
- Julia Sarbo (Historian/educator, Netherlands)
Rocky Hehakaija, Sports coach, Netherlands
Rocky Hehakaija is the first and only female member of the Street Legends, the street football team led by former professional footballer Edgar Davids. She has also played for the Dutch national street football team. She set up the Favela Street Foundation, using street football to create a new generation of strong role models in slums all over the world. They work actively in Brazil, Haiti, Curaçao, South Africa and the Netherlands.
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Rocky Hehakaija
On the role of teachers in vocational schools.
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Rocky Hehakaija
On empowering young people.
Dr Joanna Talewicz, Cultural anthropologist, Poland
Dr Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska is a Polish cultural anthropologist, assistant professor at the Intercultural Studies Institute at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and an academic adviser to the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. She has published widely on Romani people, minorities and human rights.
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Dr Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska
On being inspired by Krystyna Gil.
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Dr Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska
On antigypsyism.
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Dr Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska
On the responsibilities of teachers.
Dr Lutz van Dijk, Historian/educator, South Africa
Dr Lutz van Dijk is a German-Dutch historian and pedagogue. He has written many award-winning books for young adults and has been translated into several languages. In 2001 he co-founded HOKISA, a children’s home in Cape Town, South Africa, which cares for children living with HIV/AIDS. (http://lutzvandijk.co.za/english)
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Dr Lutz van Dijk
On Stefan Kosinski.
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Dr Lutz van Dijk
On being honest with students.
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Dr Lutz van Dijk
On what is meant by a safe space.
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Dr Lutz van Dijk
Speaks about sexual diversity.
Paul Salmons, Historian, UK
Paul Salmons is an independent curator and educator specializing in difficult histories. Curator of the international award-winning exhibition ‘Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.’ Chief curator of ‘Seeing Auschwitz’, an exhibition for UNESCO and the United Nations. Consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://paulsalmons.associates/
Monique Eckmann, Sociologist, Switzerland
Monique Eckmann is emeritus professor at the School for Social Work, the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Geneva. She has published widely on intergroup conflicts, identities and memory, and deals with intercultural education and intergroup dialogue. She was a member of the Swiss delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) from 2004 – 2018.
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Monique Eckmann
On discussing racism in schools.
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Monique Eckmann
Reflects on responding to racism between pupils.
Elke Gryglewski, Historian/educator, Germany
Dr Elke Gryglewski is the director of the Memorial Site Bergen Belsen en chair of the Foundation Lower Saxony memorial sites. She is a political scientist who has worked on the pedagogy of remembrance for more than 25 years, formerly as head of the educational department at the memorial and educational site the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. Her dissertation dealt with Berlin Arab-Palestinian and Turkish young people and their relationship to the Nazi era and the Holocaust.
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Dr Elke Gryglewski
On exploring the complexity of responding to antisemitic expressions.
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Dr Elke Gryglewski
On how to address antisemitic images.
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Dr Elke Gryglewski
On the pedagogy of appreciation.
Julia Sarbo, Historian/educator, Netherlands
Julia Sarbo is an educator at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. She was previously on the staff of the Anne Frank House for more than 10 years, developing educational materials and exhibitions about Anne Frank, the Second World War and the Holocaust.
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Julia Sarbo
On leading a discussion on the five situations.
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Julia Sarbo
On how to use the five situations with a class.