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ERIC Number: EJ778347
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Oct-24
Pages: 2
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ISSN: ISSN-0277-4232
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Genocide Claiming a Larger Place in Middle and High School Lessons
Keller, Bess; Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy
Education Week, v27 n9 p1, 15 Oct 2007
The debate in the U.S. House of Representatives over whether the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915 should be declared "genocide" has been resolved in practice in many American classrooms. That era has become intertwined with lessons on the Holocaust in the history curriculum. This article describes how teachers are finding ways to give their students a more comprehensive look at genocide historically and in current events. Human rights is one of the themes being highlighted in the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies next month, and more than a dozen sessions--the most in recent years--will take up teaching about genocide. The council has also crafted sample lessons for teachers on a variety of human-rights issues. The United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as any act committed with the idea of destroying in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Though killing is the ultimate destructive act, it is not the only one. Forcefully transferring children from one group to another represents one element of genocide. The New York City-based International Association of Genocide Scholars, a global, nonpartisan body that studies the causes and consequences of genocide, formally recognizes the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and considers it undeniable.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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