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CLARK UNIVERSITY TO HOST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE EDUCATION
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13:28 10.04.2013
Holocaust programs have become commonplace in many middle and high
school curricula across the U.S. A trend toward deploying the Holocaust
to convey moral instruction about present-day prejudices, human rights
abuses, and current genocides has emerged in recent years. These
approaches and other common pedagogical practices call for critical
review. For this reason, on April 11-13 Clark University's Strassler
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host an international
symposium, "Policy and Practice: Pedagogy about the Holocaust and
Genocide," to foster discussion about what constitutes effective
education about the Holocaust and other genocides, the Armenian
Weekly reports.
The symposium will address the following questions: What are the goals
and purpose of Holocaust and genocide education? How should educators
teach about the Holocaust and genocide in schools? Should instruction
about these subjects include lessons about civics or human rights?
The public is invited to a panel discussion, "History, Politics, and
Education: Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide," April 11. A
series of closed discussions will take place on the Clark campus
on Fri., April 12, and Sat., April 13. "Never Again," an exhibition
of photographs by Strassler Center doctoral student Shannon Scully
that explores questions of memory, complements the symposium. The
exhibition will be on display at the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne
St., in Worcester, from April 11 through May 31.
According to Mary Jane Rein, Ph.D., one of the co-organizers of the
conference (along with Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland, Ph.D.), conference
participants include leading scholars with expertise in Holocaust
history, genocide, pedagogy, comparative politics, transitional
justice, and human rights whose scholarship encompasses the many
diverse regions where genocidal conflicts have occurred and are shaped
by diverse disciplinary perspectives.
"Lessons learned will have the potential to influence curriculum
experts, policy makers, scholars, and teachers in countries around
the globe," said Rein.
Outside of the United States, it is critical to consider the
challenges confronting efforts to teach about the past in nations
that have emerged from recent conflicts or where unresolved conflicts
persist. "Education can become part of the reconciliation process in
countries recovering from trauma or where the past has not yet been
confronted frankly," said Dwork.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/10/clark-university-to-hhost-international-symposium-on-holocaust-genocide-education/
13:28 10.04.2013
Holocaust programs have become commonplace in many middle and high
school curricula across the U.S. A trend toward deploying the Holocaust
to convey moral instruction about present-day prejudices, human rights
abuses, and current genocides has emerged in recent years. These
approaches and other common pedagogical practices call for critical
review. For this reason, on April 11-13 Clark University's Strassler
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host an international
symposium, "Policy and Practice: Pedagogy about the Holocaust and
Genocide," to foster discussion about what constitutes effective
education about the Holocaust and other genocides, the Armenian
Weekly reports.
The symposium will address the following questions: What are the goals
and purpose of Holocaust and genocide education? How should educators
teach about the Holocaust and genocide in schools? Should instruction
about these subjects include lessons about civics or human rights?
The public is invited to a panel discussion, "History, Politics, and
Education: Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide," April 11. A
series of closed discussions will take place on the Clark campus
on Fri., April 12, and Sat., April 13. "Never Again," an exhibition
of photographs by Strassler Center doctoral student Shannon Scully
that explores questions of memory, complements the symposium. The
exhibition will be on display at the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne
St., in Worcester, from April 11 through May 31.
According to Mary Jane Rein, Ph.D., one of the co-organizers of the
conference (along with Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland, Ph.D.), conference
participants include leading scholars with expertise in Holocaust
history, genocide, pedagogy, comparative politics, transitional
justice, and human rights whose scholarship encompasses the many
diverse regions where genocidal conflicts have occurred and are shaped
by diverse disciplinary perspectives.
"Lessons learned will have the potential to influence curriculum
experts, policy makers, scholars, and teachers in countries around
the globe," said Rein.
Outside of the United States, it is critical to consider the
challenges confronting efforts to teach about the past in nations
that have emerged from recent conflicts or where unresolved conflicts
persist. "Education can become part of the reconciliation process in
countries recovering from trauma or where the past has not yet been
confronted frankly," said Dwork.
From: A. Papazian