![]() ![]() The centre’s report said: “While most young people who took part in the study recognised the narrative as a work of fiction and many were able to identify and critique its most glaring implausibilities and historical inaccuracies, they nonetheless overwhelmingly characterised it as ‘realistic’ and/or ‘truthful’.” Published in 2006, it has sold more than 11m copies worldwide. Drama and English teachers were more likely to use it than history teachers.īoyne’s book is about a friendship between the son of an Auschwitz commandant and a Jewish boy incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp. ![]() However, its use occupies a “somewhat contested position as a potential educational resource”, the centre’s report says. ![]() A study, to be published shortly, builds on research conducted five years ago among secondary school pupils which found that the story by John Boyne regularly elicited misplaced sympathy for Nazis.Īccording to the new survey, 35% of teachers used The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in lessons about the Holocaust. ![]()
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