Engaging with Historical Traumas
This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective experiential learning strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination.
All chapters revolve around this central theme, testing and trying various paradigms and experimenting with different practices, in a wide range of geographical and historical arenas. They demonstrate the innovative potentials of connecting know-how from different disciplines and combining experiences from various practitioners in this field of shaping historical memory, including non-formal and formal sectors of education, non-governmental workers, professionals from memorial sites and museums, local and global activists, artists, and engaged individuals. In so doing, they address the topic of collective historical traumas in ways that go beyond conventional classroom methods.
Interdisciplinary in approach, the book provides a combination of theoretical reflections and concrete pedagogical suggestions that will appeal to educators working across history, sociology, political science, peace education and civil awareness education, as well as memory activists and remembrance practitioners.
Nena Monik is a researcher at CY Cergy Paris Universit, France. She is the author of Sexuality after War Rape: From Embodied to Narrative Research and Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence: Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Societies.
Ger Duijzings is Professor of Social Anthropology (with focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe) at Universitt Regensburg, Germany. He has published extensively on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and was a researcher and expert witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland. She has authored The Ethics of Storytelling (2018) and co-edited (with Colin Davis) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020).
Bonface Njeresa Beti is an African multidisciplinary practitioner. He has co-published book chapters and journal articles. He is a committee member of NADTA and board member of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed. He has an MA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba in Canada and has been admitted to the European Graduate School to pursue his PhD.
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Engaging with Historical Traumas
Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience
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Nena Monik, Ger Duijzings, Hanna Meretoja, and Bonface Njeresa Beti
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Contents
List of figures
Editors
List of contributors
Introduction
NENA MONIK, HANNA MERETOJA, GER DUIJZINGS, AND BONFACE NJERESA BETI
PART I
Creative engagements with ghosts from the past in traditional classroom contexts
Why would you use a Fascist greeting to celebrate a football victory? Discussing historical revisionism and genocide memory with Danish high school teenagers
TEA SINDBK ANDERSEN AND TIPPE EISNER
Breaking the nationalistic master-narrative: the case of teaching history in contemporary Croatia
STEVO URAKOVI
Fictional family tree: storytelling and short film project
TAINA KILPEL AND ELINA MKIL
From traditional to the moving classroom: empathy as a key component of the classroom teaching
ALMA JEFTI
PART II
Places of pain as sites of critical knowledge production
The last ones: Serbian and Russian prisoners on the Alpine front
NICCOL CARANTI, LUISA CHIODI, AND MARCO ABRAM
#Never Forget: teaching trauma experience at historical places
NERINGA LATVYT
Exploring the 1991 Battle of Vukovar through experiential learning
SANDRA CVIKI
Speak Your Mind but Mind Your Speech
BENEDIKT HIELSCHER
PART III
Using artistic strategies to respond, reflect, and overcome
Atomic poetry and active learning: from Japan to Newfoundland
SHOSHANNAH GANZ
Through the Refugees Eyes: experiences with the experiential and interactive theatre show
MANCA ETINC VERNIK
The gestalt of historical research, art, and education: the circus theme and performing arts in remembering the tyranny of the Nazi Regime
MALTE GASCHE