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The NWCHGEE was chosen as one of 20 organizations nationally
to receive a humanities focus grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The $25,000 grant was used to fund a series of Holocaust-Genocide Studies
workshops for elementary, middle and high school teachers in Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish
counties.
While urban areas such as Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., offer
resource and education centers to examine and address Holocaust-related issues,
Washington's more rural regions do not. The ethnic and socioeconomic makeup
of Whatcom and Skagit counties is changing and schoolteachers are witnessing
an increased incidence of intolerance and prejudice in their classrooms. These
workshops provided educators in the above-mentioned counties with improved
knowledge and interdisciplinary strategies for presenting Holocaust and genocide-related
topics in their language, English and social studies classes.
The purpose of the Holocaust-Genocide Workshop was to provide teachers with
approaches to integrating Holocaust and genocide-related topics into their curriculum.
Over the course of one year, participants and staff met with scholars
to study the following topics:
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The cases
for and against drawing parallels between the Holocaust and other episodes
of genocide;
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The strengths
and limitations of using fiction, non-fiction and artwork in the study of
the Holocaust and other genocide;
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The courage/reasoning
of those who risked their lives to save the oppressed and the role
of non-Nazi perpetrators in the Holocaust.
Additional Information
To find information on workshop faculty, the
grant evaluation, or outcomes from the grant including projects by students of
workshop faculty, please click on the buttons below.
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