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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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Published in:Teaching Theology & Religion Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 57 - 76
Main Author: Johnson, Willa M.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2016
Subjects:
Classroom dynamics
Holocaust, 1939-1945
Institutional racism
Ethnocentrism
Jewish history
University of Mississippi
Education
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