Preservation through moral education: Exploring reluctance, paradox, challenges, and reliance on moral intuition for moral progress at Europe’s darkest sites

Thomas, Robert and Daunt, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6741-4924 2025. Preservation through moral education: Exploring reluctance, paradox, challenges, and reliance on moral intuition for moral progress at Europe’s darkest sites. Presented at: After Genocide and Mass Violence: What Comes Next?, Huddersfield, UK, 23-24 October 2025.

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Abstract

Schinkel and de Ruyter (2017, p. 121) suggest that “that moral progress is possible is a foundational assumption of moral education.” However, moral education and education broadly in relation to genocide hasn’t developed in 30 years and new paradigms are needed (Resenly and Dalbo, 2025). This work explores the negative emotionality and political anxiety associated with change and the provision of direct moral education at dark tourist sites. The work highlights an in-situ reliance on passive social learning to grapple with the enormity of Nazi genocide, necropolitical programs and the rise of the far right across Europe and the commercialisation of the Holocaust (Chen and Xu, 2020).

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
Date of Acceptance:	12 September 2025
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2025 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181352

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