Description Teaching about the Holocaust presents one of the most formidable challenges teachers face.
Rebecca Chase is a former assistant director of the Women\'s & Gender Studies Program and former faculty member in Women\'s & Gender Studies, English, and English Education at Illinois State University..
She is a former director of the English Education Program and faculty member in English and Women\'s & Gender Studies.
About the Author Paula Ressler is associate professor emerita at Illinois State University.
By following along, preservice educators will be able to conceptualize, discuss, and practice, and inservice teachers and teacher educators rethink, how to teach Holocaust and other literatures about genocide and mass atrocities in culturally relevant and Meaningful ways today.
The authors recount the students\' and teacher\'s unsettling and enlightening experiences, failures, and successes.
They raise questions, pose problems, consider and analyze how participants responded to issues that emerged, and suggest alternative approaches.
The authors offer no facile solutions to the obstacles and pitfalls inherent in teaching this literature.
The book involves the reader in the complicated tangle of Holocaust education, critically illuminating how difficult this work is, but also demonstrating how teachers can introduce their students responsibly and ethically to this perennially relevant body of literature.
It tells the story of a unique, inquiry-based English teacher education course focused on Holocaust literature from several genres that integrated literacy pedagogies and literary criticism with historical, philosophical, psychological, and political theories and contexts.
Meaningful Encounters is Paula Ressler and Becca Chase\'s contribution to the efforts of those educators who wish to meet this challenge more knowledgeably and effectively.
Description Teaching about the Holocaust presents one of the most formidable challenges teachers face
