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Hanover students turn school into a pop-up genocide museum
17:29, 27 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS: Hanover Park Regional High School
students took two years worth of hard work and turned it into a pop-up
genocide museum, filling classrooms with detailed accounts of
humanity's horrors- Armenian Genocide and from Holocaust to Darfur,
reports Armenpress referring to Daily Record.
Whippany Park High School held their "Voices from the Dark" Genocide
Studies Gallery Walk Thursday night. Students from both Hanover Park
High School and Whippany Park High School took part in the extension
of the district's Genocide Studies class, which first entered the
curriculum in fall 2011.
A semester-long course, the class is available to sophomores, juniors,
and seniors. Kyle Kirst teaches the course at Hanover Park High
School, and Brady Mahar at Whippany Park High School.
Hanover Park District Supervisor of Instruction Chris Kelly said the
genocide studies class is in high demand at the high schools. "I could
probably run a full teacher on just this class."
Mahar designed the curriculum himself after he was told administration
was seeking new electives. "It's dark subject matter, easy to stay
away from, but it's become my reason to come to work every day," he
said, adding the class isn't designed to shock and awe students. "It's
a space for students to talk about these issues, to make connections
that mean something. We want to take the irrational and try to make it
rational. "
He said he teaches his classes the stages of genocide construct a
pyramid, with the first step being bullying that can happen in high
school hallways.
"Then rights get taken away, and the higher you go the more violent it
becomes," Mahar said. "We have examples in the world right now of
every step of this pyramid except the very top. It's not just history,
not as distant as some might think. "
Mahar said a goal of the class is to connect the past events to the
student's lives. "Racism, homophobia, these discriminations are alive
today. And they're how it starts. "
For the gallery, students from the various Genocide Studies classes
put together different elements based on major genocidal acts in world
history, from the Holocaust to Darfur.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/716920/hanover-students-turn-school-into-a-pop-up-genocide-museum.html
17:29, 27 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS: Hanover Park Regional High School
students took two years worth of hard work and turned it into a pop-up
genocide museum, filling classrooms with detailed accounts of
humanity's horrors- Armenian Genocide and from Holocaust to Darfur,
reports Armenpress referring to Daily Record.
Whippany Park High School held their "Voices from the Dark" Genocide
Studies Gallery Walk Thursday night. Students from both Hanover Park
High School and Whippany Park High School took part in the extension
of the district's Genocide Studies class, which first entered the
curriculum in fall 2011.
A semester-long course, the class is available to sophomores, juniors,
and seniors. Kyle Kirst teaches the course at Hanover Park High
School, and Brady Mahar at Whippany Park High School.
Hanover Park District Supervisor of Instruction Chris Kelly said the
genocide studies class is in high demand at the high schools. "I could
probably run a full teacher on just this class."
Mahar designed the curriculum himself after he was told administration
was seeking new electives. "It's dark subject matter, easy to stay
away from, but it's become my reason to come to work every day," he
said, adding the class isn't designed to shock and awe students. "It's
a space for students to talk about these issues, to make connections
that mean something. We want to take the irrational and try to make it
rational. "
He said he teaches his classes the stages of genocide construct a
pyramid, with the first step being bullying that can happen in high
school hallways.
"Then rights get taken away, and the higher you go the more violent it
becomes," Mahar said. "We have examples in the world right now of
every step of this pyramid except the very top. It's not just history,
not as distant as some might think. "
Mahar said a goal of the class is to connect the past events to the
student's lives. "Racism, homophobia, these discriminations are alive
today. And they're how it starts. "
For the gallery, students from the various Genocide Studies classes
put together different elements based on major genocidal acts in world
history, from the Holocaust to Darfur.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/716920/hanover-students-turn-school-into-a-pop-up-genocide-museum.html