Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context

328 Pages·2018·3.84 MB·English

by  Amy E. Traver

Humanistic
Pedagogy Across
the Disciplines
Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education
in the Community College Context
Edited by Amy E. Traver and Dan Leshem
Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines
Amy E. Traver • Dan Leshem
Editors
Humanistic Pedagogy
Across the Disciplines
Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the
Community College Context
Editors
Amy E. Traver Dan Leshem
Department of Social Sciences Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg
Queensborough Community Holocaust Center (KHC)
College, CUNY Queensborough Community
Bayside, NY, USA College, CUNY
Bayside, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-95024-2 ISBN 978-3-319-95025-9 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95025-9
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This book is dedicated to the tireless efforts, insight, and creative courage of
our Queensborough Community College (QCC) colleagues: students,
faculty, and staff. It has been a pleasure learning from and with you.
Also, to our children Raenen, Mayrav, and Yotam for whom we do the
work we do.
A
cknowledgments
This volume is the result of a true team effort on the parts of many faculty,
students, and staff at Queensborough Community College (QCC) and
the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC). Proceeding
chronologically, we would like to thank the Challenge Grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which provided match-
ing funds to our generous donors’ contributions and allowed us to estab-
lish the KHC/NEH Endowment Fund to maintain the Colloquium Series
in perpetuity. Of course, many people at QCC helped implement these
grant programs, starting with President Diane B. Call and Vice President
of Institutional Advancement Rosemary Zins. We would also like to thank
the team that developed the proposal and helped grow the concept over
the first several years, including QCC faculty members Drs. Sarah
Danielsson, Susan Jacobowitz, and Emily Tai in addition to former KHC
Executive Director, Dr. Arthur Flug. More broadly, we are grateful for the
staff of the KHC, especially Assistant Director Marisa Hollywood, who
helped plan, implement, and manage the budgets for most of the series
represented in this book.
A special acknowledgment is due to the faculty coordinators who led
the NEH grant over its initial years and who, through their efforts, helped
shape what it has become. Equally important are the many colloquia
speakers—including scholars, directors, policymakers, and genocide and
mass atrocity survivors—who generously contributed their time, experi-
ence, and expertise to the college and our larger community. Additionally,
we are thankful for the QCC faculty who aligned courses with the annual
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Colloquia. Their inclusive approach to teaching and to generating learning
communities was essential to the success of these past five years, and it will
be equally so in future endeavors. Finally, we must recognize QCC’s
students, whose openness, active engagement, and creativity serve as the
inspiration and foundation for all of our work.
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ontents
1 Introduction: Humanistic Pedagogy Across the
Disciplines—Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education
in the Community College Context 1
Dan Leshem
Part I Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the
Community College Context: Theoretical Foundations
and Programmatic Examples 23
2 Arts-Based Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education 25
Cary Lane
3 Textual Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education 47
Aliza Atik, Kathleen Tamayo Alves, and Mirna Lekić
4 Outcomes-Based Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education 69
Amy E. Traver
5 Social Justice Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education 93
Susan Jacobowitz
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Part II Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the
Community College Context: Course-Based
Examples 113
6 Students Reflect on the Intersection of Sex, Gender,
and Genocide from a Social- Psychological Perspective 115
Azadeh Aalai
7 Incarceration Through the Lens of Genocide and
Restorative Justice 127
Rose Marie Äikäs
8 Dancing to Connect: An Interdisciplinary Creative Arts
Approach to Holocaust Education Within Liberatory
Pedagogy 143
Aliza Atik, Aviva Geismar, and Benjamin Lawrance Miller
9 Teaching the Holocaust: Making Literary Theory
Memorable 163
Johannes Burgers
10 Outcomes of an Academic Service-Learning Project on
Mass Atrocity with an ELL Population 181
Julia B. Carroll
11 Connecting the Dots: Backward Course Design, Arts
Education, and Teaching the Holocaust 195
Steven Dahlke
12 Where History Meets Literature: Teaching the Holocaust,
Genocide, and Mass Atrocity Through a Creative
Approach in the Community College English Classroom 209
Melissa Dennihy
13 Trust No Scorn on the Page and No Hate in the Frame:
Deconstructing Hate Speech and Empowering Tolerance
in English 101 229
Barbara K. Emanuele
CONTENT S xi
14 “I thought Natives were all living an idyllic country
life…”: Students Reconsider North American Indigenous
Peoples’ Lives Through Speech, Gender, and Genocide 245
Franca Ferrari-Bridgers
15 Echoes of Exile: Genocide and Displacement Studies in
the Undergraduate Music Curriculum 259
Mirna Lekić and André Brégégère
16 Using Campus Resources and Problem-Based Learning
to Prepare Students to Become Global Citizens 273
Danny Sexton
17 The Power of Images: Enhancing Learning Outcomes in a
History of  Photography Course Through an
Understanding of Genocide and the Refugee Experience 291
Kathleen Wentrack
Index 305