Summer Seminar
Holocaust Educators Network 2011 Summer Seminar Participants and Memorial Library Board Members
Our twelve-day summer seminar is open to teachers from across the United States whose schools and communities are faced with a lack of available resources or with issues related to social injustice. The 2012 summer seminar will take place from July 8-21, 2012 in NYC.
Led by Sondra Perl and her colleagues, Jennifer Lemberg and Alice Braziller, the seminar encourages teachers to think creatively and collaboratively about how they teach the Holocaust and more recent genocides. Participants become adept at dealing with difficult material and discover how writing, dialogue, and inquiry can help motivate students toward social action.
Prior experience teaching the Holocaust or focusing on social injustice in the classroom is required.
Course content includes:
- Testimony from Holocaust survivors
- Workshops by scholars and artists
- A day at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
- A focus on experiential learning, interactive pedagogy, and writing
- Outings to historic sites and cultural events
All participants receive $500 fellowships, free housing at Columbia University, round-trip airfare, and a small stipend for local needs. (Additional stipends up to $500 are available on a limited basis for applicants who can demonstrate financial need.)
HEN teachers Josephine Cripps and Suki Highers
How do we make the Holocaust accessible to students? What’s at stake for them, for us, for the world? But equally important, what can we learn by working with one another?”
- Sondra Perl, Seminar Director
