Full Description
Secondary level teachers and professors from various disciplines present their best advice and insights into teaching about various facets of genocide and/or delineate actual lessons they have taught that have been particularly successful with their students.
Contents
Introduction - Samuel Totten
Part One: Insights and Advice from Secondary Level Teachers
Chapter 1: Initiating the Study: Clusters or Mind-Maps by Samuel Totten
Chapter 2: "Teaching About Genocide: The Basics and Beyond" by Mark Gudgel
Chapter 3: "Some Practical Advice for Teaching About Genocide" by Kimberly Klett
Chapter 4; "Advice on Teaching About Genocide" by Nancy Ziemer
Chapter 5: "Studying Genocide Using a Human Rights Perspective" by William R. Fernekes
Chapter 6: "Teaching the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Through Stanton's 8 Stages" by Kelley H. Szany
Chapter 7: "The Ukrainian Genocide - The Holodomor, 1932-1933: A Case of Denial, Cover-Up and Dismissal" by Valentina Kuryliw
Chapter 8: "'Why Don't We Talk About Rape?' Teaching About Sexual Violence in Genocide" by George Dalbo
Chapter 9: "Empowering Students to Design Their Own Enquiry into the Nature of Genocide" by Andy Lawrence
Part Two: Insights and Advice from College and University Professors
Chapter 10: "Tools for Experiential Genocide Studies" by Israel W. Charny
Chapter 11: "Some Considerations When Preparing to Teach About Genocide" by Elun T. Gabriel
Chapter 12: The Distinctiveness of Genocide (Destroying Groups vs. Mass Killings of People): A Thought-Piece for Educators" by Eyal Mayroz
Chapter 13: "Situating Genocide within the Context of Other Forms of Large-Scale Political Violence" by Matthew Krain
Chapter 14: Presenting Genocide: Using Concepts and Cases by Fred P. Cocozzelli
Chapter 15: Genocide: Explanation and Understanding" by Ernesto Verdeja
Chapter 16: "Survivors of Sexual Violence in Rwanda Speak: A Letter Writing Assignment to Combat Psychic Numbing" by Kimberley Ducey
Chapter 17: "Safe Simulations? Best Practices in the Classroom" by Waitman Beorn
Chapter 18: "Teaching About the Bosnian Genocide" by Hikmet Karcic
Chapter 19: "Teaching About Perpetrators" by Kjell Anderson
Chapter 20: "Fighting Death With Life: Survivors' Voices and Secondary Witnessing of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda" by Gerise Herndon
Chapter 21: "Education for Prevention" by Deborah Mayersen
Chapter 22: Genocide Education: Emotions, Knowledge and Generating Active Bystandership for Prevention" by Ervin Staub
