Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction: Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines—Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context

   • Dan Leshem

   Pages 1-21

3. Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context: Theoretical Foundations and Programmatic Examples

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Arts-Based Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education

      • Cary Lane

      Pages 25-46

   3. Textual Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education

      • Aliza Atik, Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Mirna Lekić

      Pages 47-68

   4. Outcomes-Based Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education

      • Amy E. Traver

      Pages 69-91

   5. Social Justice Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education

      • Susan Jacobowitz

      Pages 93-111

4. Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context: Course-Based Examples

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Students Reflect on the Intersection of Sex, Gender, and Genocide from a Social-Psychological Perspective

      • Azadeh Aalai

      Pages 115-125

   3. Incarceration Through the Lens of Genocide and Restorative Justice

      • Rose Marie Äikäs

      Pages 127-142

   4. Dancing to Connect: An Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Approach to Holocaust Education Within Liberatory Pedagogy

      • Aliza Atik, Aviva Geismar, Benjamin Lawrance Miller

      Pages 143-161

   5. Teaching the Holocaust: Making Literary Theory Memorable

      • Johannes Burgers

      Pages 163-180

   6. Outcomes of an Academic Service-Learning Project on Mass Atrocity with an ELL Population

      • Julia B. Carroll

      Pages 181-194

   7. Connecting the Dots: Backward Course Design, Arts Education, and Teaching the Holocaust

      • Steven Dahlke

      Pages 195-208

   8. Where History Meets Literature: Teaching the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Atrocity Through a Creative Approach in the Community College English Classroom

      • Melissa Dennihy

      Pages 209-228

   9. Trust No Scorn on the Page and No Hate in the Frame: Deconstructing Hate Speech and Empowering Tolerance in English 101

      • Barbara K. Emanuele

      Pages 229-243

   10. “I thought Natives were all living an idyllic country life…”: Students Reconsider North American Indigenous Peoples’ Lives Through Speech, Gender, and Genocide

       • Franca Ferrari-Bridgers

       Pages 245-258

   11. Echoes of Exile: Genocide and Displacement Studies in the Undergraduate Music Curriculum

       • Mirna Lekić, André Brégégère

       Pages 259-272

   12. Using Campus Resources and Problem-Based Learning to Prepare Students to Become Global Citizens

       • Danny Sexton

       Pages 273-290

   13. The Power of Images: Enhancing Learning Outcomes in a History of Photography Course Through an Understanding of Genocide and the Refugee Experience

       • Kathleen Wentrack

       Pages 291-304

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches—Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice—to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today’s college students. The authors cover the theoretical foundations of each approach, and include faculty reflections on the programs, instructional strategies, and student reactions that brought the approaches to life across the disciplines.

• Mass Atrocity Education
• genocide
• holocaust studies
• restorative justice
• Liberatory Pedagogy
• community college
• Multicultural Education
• Displacement Studies
• refugee studies

“Traver and Leshem provide a much-needed and comprehensive in-depth guide for those teaching about the difficult and complex topics of the Holocaust and mass atrocities at the community college level. Addressing fundamental curricular issues, this volume offers a wellspring of valuable insights into the complexities associated with teaching these subjects. I know of no other guide for community college educators of the Holocaust or mass atrocities as comprehensive and useful as this. This volume is an outstanding resource for those who desire to reflect deeply on these topics.” (Stephen Feinberg, former Director of National Outreach, Education Division, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA)

“As the Holocaust becomes a borrowed rather than living memory, fake news spreads far beyond Holocaust denial, and multi- and social media further decenter the written word, the importance of the arts for augmenting and enriching our intellectual understanding of mass atrocity only increases. This volume documents a wide range of creative yet critical engagements with the greatest horrors of our times, in the under-researched context of the community college. Attentive to outcomes as well as the construction of meaning, to spurring civic action as well as cultivating pro-social dispositions, this volume shows us how our increasingly diverse citizenry, heeding the failures of our recent past, will shape the twenty-first century.” (Doyle Stevick, Associate Professor of Education, University of South Carolina, USA)

 

• Department of Social Sciences, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY, USA

  Amy E. Traver

• Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC), Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY, USA

  Dan Leshem

Amy E. Traver is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College (QCC), City University of New York (CUNY), USA.


Dan Leshem is the former Executive Director of the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at QCC, CUNY, USA.

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