Holocaust Education and Transformational Learning

Date: September 22nd, 2021
Duration: 1h:4m:3s

This lecture took place on September 22, 2021 and was part of the 2021-22 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond.” This series is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” (http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/).

This workshop explores how Holocaust education can be a catalyst for transformative learning in higher education. Using her research into the behavior of perpetrators and bystanders as a case study, Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Associate Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York, discusses how faculty members can design curricula that navigates these difficult histories in an impactful way. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at QCC. For more information about the KHC at Queensborough Community College, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu

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