Teaching Genocide Comparatively Workshop.
Arizona State University Tempe Campus, TempeLocation: Coor Hall 4403, ASU Tempe Campus. Speakers include PHA President Sheryl Bronkesh, Professors Volker Benkert and Jason Bruner. Holocaust education, and genocide education more broadly, is an area in which humanities scholars and scholarship can make important contributions to civic education. While many U.S. states include the Holocaust and other genocides in their history and social studies standards, there are relatively few resources for high school teachers to teach these atrocities in a way that is sensitive to the historical particularities of each genocide and provides their students with a meaningful comparative framework. In this event, we will briefly introduce a framework that we developed from an eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration on genocide, including a short curricular framework for the...
