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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 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018954930 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © Eric Emerson / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland 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 vii viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 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. c 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 ix x CONTENTS 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
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