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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EDUCATION EVENTS IN US STATES
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/725056/armenian-genocide-education-events-in-us-states.html
14:38, 4 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 4, ARMENPRESS: The Genocide Education Project (GenEd)
led several workshops on the Armenian Genocide recently, reminding
educators that April is the month to "commemorate and educate". As
reported by Armenpress, quoting the Armenian Reporter periodical,
through workshops focused on resistance, residual effects of genocide,
and survivor stories, the message was communicated that education is
the most effective way of remembering and preventing genocide.
Students participating in the "Day of Learning," hosted by the
Holocaust Center of San Francisco, learned about how Armenians in
Musa Dagh successfully escaped genocide by resisting the Turkish army
until rescued by Allied forces, and how this story later inspired
Jews in the ghettos of the Holocaust to resist the Nazis.
During the annual half-day event on March 17th students attend
interactive workshops to gain a deeper understanding about the
Holocaust and other genocides, with the purpose of inspiring moral
courage and social responsibility in the future. This year's event
was attended by more than 600 students from 101 schools in California.
"The Holocaust Center was thrilled to have GenEd join us again as
a partner," said Morgan Blum, Education Director for the Holocaust
Center. "
Sara Cohan, GenEd's Education Director, taught approximately 40
high school students about the events leading up to the Armenian
Genocide, how it was carried out, its devastating aftermath, the
Turkish government's denial, and the important connections with
the Holocaust, including the success and influence of the novel,
"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," written in German, by Austrian Jew,
Franz Werfel, in 1933.
Garine Panossian, Armenian language and history teacher at KZV Armenian
School, told the students about her grandfather, Margos Snabian,
one of the resistance fighters of Musa Dagh.
"Sara Cohan beautifully engaged her students in a journey through
time," said Blum, "And Garine Panossian truly connected this century
old story with her students today, and made it relevant to the struggle
of identity they experience on a daily basis."
Students in the "Genocide and Human Behavior" course at San Francisco's
Lick-Wilmerding high school heard from GenEd's Roxanne Makasdjian,
who gave an account of her grandparents' escape from the Armenian
Genocide and the many ways it has influenced her life.
History teacher, Mary Finn, said, "The kids loved [the] talk! They
found it so helpful and interesting."
"Genocide and Human Behavior" is an elective course offered as part
of the school's mission to inspire students to "engage with the world
in order to enact positive change." Students spend approximately 3
weeks learning about the Armenian Genocide. This is the third time
Finn has asked GenEd to provide a speaker to introduce her students
to someone who was affected personally by the Armenian Genocide.
GenEd's Rhode Island branch volunteers, Pauline Getzoyan and Esther
Kalajian presented a workshop on April 10th for teachers attending
the 44th annual Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies,
in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
The workshop, "A Journey from Despair to Hope: The Armenian American
Experience," explored the history of the Armenian Genocide through
the recorded testimony of genocide survivor, Margaret Der Manuelian,
illuminating this tragic history and highlighting issues regarding
immigration and human rights activism in the US today.
"The workshop participants were very engaged and interested in Armenian
Genocide education," said Getzoyan. "I truly have confidence that
they will provide their students the knowledge they'll need on this
subject to help them make informed decisions in the future."
At the April 24th Armenian Genocide commemoration in San Francisco,
GenEd board member, Roxanne Makasdjian, encouraged community members to
help make the Armenian Genocide a standard part of school curriculums.
"Most of you have some connection to a local middle school or high
school. Either you, your son, daughter, grandchild, or sibling
attends one, or you may know someone that works in the school
system. That means you possess the power to make an important and
lasting contribution to the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide,"
said Makasdjian.
"Reach out to those educators and students in your lives, urging them
to bring the lessons of the Armenian Genocide into their classrooms.
Committed to their mission to promote awareness of, and gain U.S.
recognition for the first genocide of the 20th century, a local group
of Armenian American activists hosted the sixth educator's workshop
(in Michigan) on the Armenian Genocide. Richard Norsigian, a member
of the group as well as an educator, arranged the 2013 workshop with
the Washtenaw Intermediate School District. The group set a date of
Thursday, April 18, 2013 and an open invitation was sent to secondary
educators in the area. To date the group has hosted workshops in
Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties with over 175 Michigan educators
participating.
Working in collaboration with the Boston based educational
organization, Facing History and Ourselves, the workshop provides an
introduction to the Armenian Genocide as well as the basis for more
in-depth study with instructional materials for course work and access
to teaching resources. Since 1976 Facing History and Ourselves has
offered an interdisciplinary approach to citizenship education that
connects the history of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide
to the moral questions young people face in their own lives.
http://armenpress.am/eng/print/725056/armenian-genocide-education-events-in-us-states.html
14:38, 4 July, 2013
YEREVAN, JULY 4, ARMENPRESS: The Genocide Education Project (GenEd)
led several workshops on the Armenian Genocide recently, reminding
educators that April is the month to "commemorate and educate". As
reported by Armenpress, quoting the Armenian Reporter periodical,
through workshops focused on resistance, residual effects of genocide,
and survivor stories, the message was communicated that education is
the most effective way of remembering and preventing genocide.
Students participating in the "Day of Learning," hosted by the
Holocaust Center of San Francisco, learned about how Armenians in
Musa Dagh successfully escaped genocide by resisting the Turkish army
until rescued by Allied forces, and how this story later inspired
Jews in the ghettos of the Holocaust to resist the Nazis.
During the annual half-day event on March 17th students attend
interactive workshops to gain a deeper understanding about the
Holocaust and other genocides, with the purpose of inspiring moral
courage and social responsibility in the future. This year's event
was attended by more than 600 students from 101 schools in California.
"The Holocaust Center was thrilled to have GenEd join us again as
a partner," said Morgan Blum, Education Director for the Holocaust
Center. "
Sara Cohan, GenEd's Education Director, taught approximately 40
high school students about the events leading up to the Armenian
Genocide, how it was carried out, its devastating aftermath, the
Turkish government's denial, and the important connections with
the Holocaust, including the success and influence of the novel,
"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," written in German, by Austrian Jew,
Franz Werfel, in 1933.
Garine Panossian, Armenian language and history teacher at KZV Armenian
School, told the students about her grandfather, Margos Snabian,
one of the resistance fighters of Musa Dagh.
"Sara Cohan beautifully engaged her students in a journey through
time," said Blum, "And Garine Panossian truly connected this century
old story with her students today, and made it relevant to the struggle
of identity they experience on a daily basis."
Students in the "Genocide and Human Behavior" course at San Francisco's
Lick-Wilmerding high school heard from GenEd's Roxanne Makasdjian,
who gave an account of her grandparents' escape from the Armenian
Genocide and the many ways it has influenced her life.
History teacher, Mary Finn, said, "The kids loved [the] talk! They
found it so helpful and interesting."
"Genocide and Human Behavior" is an elective course offered as part
of the school's mission to inspire students to "engage with the world
in order to enact positive change." Students spend approximately 3
weeks learning about the Armenian Genocide. This is the third time
Finn has asked GenEd to provide a speaker to introduce her students
to someone who was affected personally by the Armenian Genocide.
GenEd's Rhode Island branch volunteers, Pauline Getzoyan and Esther
Kalajian presented a workshop on April 10th for teachers attending
the 44th annual Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies,
in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
The workshop, "A Journey from Despair to Hope: The Armenian American
Experience," explored the history of the Armenian Genocide through
the recorded testimony of genocide survivor, Margaret Der Manuelian,
illuminating this tragic history and highlighting issues regarding
immigration and human rights activism in the US today.
"The workshop participants were very engaged and interested in Armenian
Genocide education," said Getzoyan. "I truly have confidence that
they will provide their students the knowledge they'll need on this
subject to help them make informed decisions in the future."
At the April 24th Armenian Genocide commemoration in San Francisco,
GenEd board member, Roxanne Makasdjian, encouraged community members to
help make the Armenian Genocide a standard part of school curriculums.
"Most of you have some connection to a local middle school or high
school. Either you, your son, daughter, grandchild, or sibling
attends one, or you may know someone that works in the school
system. That means you possess the power to make an important and
lasting contribution to the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide,"
said Makasdjian.
"Reach out to those educators and students in your lives, urging them
to bring the lessons of the Armenian Genocide into their classrooms.
Committed to their mission to promote awareness of, and gain U.S.
recognition for the first genocide of the 20th century, a local group
of Armenian American activists hosted the sixth educator's workshop
(in Michigan) on the Armenian Genocide. Richard Norsigian, a member
of the group as well as an educator, arranged the 2013 workshop with
the Washtenaw Intermediate School District. The group set a date of
Thursday, April 18, 2013 and an open invitation was sent to secondary
educators in the area. To date the group has hosted workshops in
Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties with over 175 Michigan educators
participating.
Working in collaboration with the Boston based educational
organization, Facing History and Ourselves, the workshop provides an
introduction to the Armenian Genocide as well as the basis for more
in-depth study with instructional materials for course work and access
to teaching resources. Since 1976 Facing History and Ourselves has
offered an interdisciplinary approach to citizenship education that
connects the history of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide
to the moral questions young people face in their own lives.