Teaching about genocide supports character education and helps students reconsider their own assumptions about in - group / out - group dynamics, scapegoating, revenge, and forgiveness.
An interesting lesson
taught about genocide and cannibalism: it's not the commission of atrocity to be mourned, it's the loss for a taste for French fries that's really the tragedy.
Not exact matches
When you reject a religious group because they are closed off
about science, or
teach you to hate people because they're different, or tell you that
genocide is good and holy, or cover up child molestation to protect a pastor, God cheers you on.
For the past five years, I have
taught secondary teachers and school counselors
about colonialism and
genocide to deepen their understanding of those themes, and to explore the connection between
genocide in a faraway place (Rwanda) and othering in our schools so they can promote upstander behavior.
When
teaching genocide we must be careful
about the images we use with students.
Survival Pictures was established to tell this story of perseverance and human endurance, and it has begun a campaign to
teach the public
about the
genocides and mass atrocities of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In this edition of the BU Law podcast, host and media veteran, Dan Rea of WBZ - Radio 1030 welcomes BU School of Law Professor of Law, Dr. David Nersessian, who
teaches Human Rights Law and Professional Responsibility, to talk
about his new book,
Genocide and Political Groups.