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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.
List of 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 Kar¿i¿
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
About the author
Samuel Totten a longtime scholar of genocide studies and retired professor (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), is the author of Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Fundamental Issues and Approaches (Information Age Publishing, 2018). Over the past fourteen years he has conducted field work into crimes against humanity and genocide in the refugee camps along the Chad/Darfur, Sudan border, and in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
Summary
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.
