About the Chapter:
This chapter discusses the development of the 2013-14 KHC-NEH Colloquium and the motivation behind utilizing interdisciplinary and social justice approaches in the teaching of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity. It reviews the pedagogical theories that support encouraging students to relate the Holocaust to ongoing challenges in society and to their own lives, and it introduces additional examples of social justice instruction.
About the Author:
Susan Jacobowitz, Ph.D. is a Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She earned her doctorate at Brandeis University. Her research areas include second-generation experience including literature, graphic texts and performance art, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and conflicts and challenges of Jewish identity. Her scholarship has been published in Australia, the United States, Germany, Brazil, Israel, and India.
For information and resources related to the 2013-14 KHC-NEH Colloquium, “The Holocaust in a Global Context: Connections Across the Community College,” click here.
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