Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781032013299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 276 str.

Nena Močnik; Ger Duijzings; Hanna Meretoja

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Creative Engagements with ‘Ghosts from the Past’ in Traditional Classroom Contexts  1. Why would you use a Fascist Greeting to Celebrate a Football Victory? Discussing Historical Revisionism and Genocide Memory with Danish High School Teenagers  2. Breaking the Nationalistic Master-Narrative: The Case of Teaching History in Contemporary Croatia  3. Fictional Family Tree: Storytelling and Short Film Project  4. From Traditional to the Moving Classroom: Empathy as a Key Component of the Classroom Teaching  Part 2: Places of Pain as Sites of Critical Knowledge Production  5. The Last Ones: Serbian and Russian Prisoners on the Alpine Front  6. #Never Forget: Teaching Trauma Experience at Historical Places  7. Exploring the 1991 Battle of Vukovar through experiential learning  8. Speak Your Mind but Mind Your Speech  Part 3: Using Artistic Strategies to Respond, Reflect, and Overcome  9. Atomic Poetry and Active Learning: From Japan to Newfoundland  10. "Through the Refugee’s Eyes’: Experiences with the Experiential and Interactive Theatre Show  11. The Gestalt of Historical Research, Art, and Education: The Circus Theme and Performing Arts in Remembering the Tyranny of the National Socialist Regime  Part 4: Healing and Embodied Strategies of Learning  12. Utilising the Breath as an Experiential Tool to Teach, Learn and Manage Trauma  13. Art Therapy and Integral Education with Traumatized Youths in Bosnia and Herzegovina  14. Poetry Against Trump: Shared Experience and Creative Resistance  Part 5: Playing (with) the Past, Rehearsing (for) the Future  15. Performative Experiential Learning Strategies: Reenacting the Historical, Enacting the Everyday  16. Escaping the Thucydides Trap in IR class  17. Designing Videogames for Teaching about Transmission of Historical Traumas: A Case Study of Memory Gliders  18. In Memory of Memory Gliders: Preservation of EU-Funded Serious Games as Digital Heritage