From My Place: Teaching the Holocaust and Judaism at the University of Mississippi Fifty-Three Years after James Meredith

This essay explores classroom dynamics when students identify and connect their own painful experiences to structural racism or ethnocentrism exhibited in the Holocaust or parts of Jewish history. The intrusion of this proximal knowledge can be an obstacle to student learning. If engaged by professo...

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Main Author: Johnson, Willa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Teaching theology and religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-75
IxTheo Classification:AH Religious education
AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B racial frame
B Sociological Imagination
B Holocaust
B religious frame
B Judaism
B Proximal knowledge
B Ethnocentrism
B sociology of knowledge
B reflective journaling
B social location
B Racism
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