Teaching Tough Topics: Human Rights, Genocide, and Atrocity Crimes in the 21st Century Classroom - Paperback
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Teaching Tough Topics is a methods book for the classroom hours nobody wants to teach: genocide, atrocity crime and human rights.
It starts with the question teachers are entitled to ask first, which is why teach this at all, and only then moves to how.
What it covers
Building the background knowledge students need before the hard material lands, and heading off the myths that fill the gap when they do not have it.
Student-centered strategies rather than lecture, and survivor testimony and primary sources as the bridge from the past to what is happening now.
The closing section looks at where teaching this material goes next.
Who it's for
Courses in history, social studies, pedagogy and human rights education, and any teacher building such a unit without a template to work from.
From the publisher
Teaching Tough Topics: Human Rights, Genocide, and Atrocity Crimes in the 21st Century Classroom provides readers a comprehensive exploration into the teaching of difficult historical and contemporary subjects within academic settings. The book addresses the challenges and methodologies pertinent to presenting topics such as human rights violations, genocide, and other crimes against humanity.
The text begins with an examination of the motivations and rationale behind teaching about crimes and atrocities. It then discusses strategies to build students' requisite background knowledge, ensuring accuracy and the avoidance of perpetuating myths or misconceptions.
The book further emphasizes interactive, student-centered strategies and the use of survivor testimonies and primary sources to make a tangible connection to the past and present realities of atrocities. The final section looks at future directions for teaching tough topics in the 21st century classroom.
Teaching Tough Topics is an ideal textbook for courses centered on human rights education, history, social studies, and pedagogical studies. Future and current teachers and educational planners will find it particularly useful for crafting lesson plans and curriculums that discuss difficult subject matter in a responsible, engaging, and informative way.
Nearby: our general history books.
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