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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Peggy, Your discussion with your students sound similar to mine. There is that ease in looking at difficult times from such distance (and safety). I think students today already suffer from being bystanders. […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Zack, I appreciate your thoughts and hold many similar viewpoints. When you pointed out, “while Fascism was the cause of the non-intellectualism of classrooms in Austria, perhaps the status of economic empire in […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Jon, I feel much the same way as you regarding identity. My life is so wrapped up in my children that I’m sometimes not sure who I am apart from them. I think about this when I teach because I too ponder the […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Recently, my mother-in-law said that when good things happen in life that it’s “God winking at you.” This sentiment comes from a book entitled When God Winks at You by Squire Rushnell. He’s making a lot of money […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
When I study the Holocaust, and teach my students about it, I often find they ask the question “how could people do that? Why didn’t they (victims) fight back? They always say things like “I would have run away” […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
In the latter half of the Hoffman text, the idea of ethics, remorse, and of course how average people can engage in such brutality like the Nazis was at the forefront of my thinking. Hoffman articulates this well […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Ashley, I also work with a lot of at-risk kids who carry a great deal of emotional baggage. I think that when teaching the Holocaust it’s essential that we as educators feel like we can tap into those […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
Lisa, I liked how you said “the metaphor of ripples caused by tossing a stone into water comes to mind” to describe the layered and complex affects of a tragic past forming identity for second generation survivors […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 11 months ago
When reading Hoffman’s work I found it to be deeply complex and in many ways deeply personal. It took a bit of wading to immerse myself in the text and find those ideas that resonated with me in considering the […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 11 years ago
Your statement about your Human Rights course from a Forensic Anthropologist and studying forensic taphonomy with war crimes and genocide sounds fascinating. I’m interested to hear what that looked like and also […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 11 years ago
You may find you face different challenges with your students including understanding the Holocaust on only a very superficial level-namely an historical event-not as one of many genocides. It will be interesting […]
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 11 years ago
Ashley, I’m totally with you on making students socially responsible. I’m not sure it’s something they can learn on their own. As they say, “it takes a village.” I’m looking forward to meeting you!
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Andrea.Kirkpatrick commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 11 years ago
Greetings! One thing you should know is I’m rather verbose, so forgive me. For the past 14 years I’ve been teaching 8th grade English in Mid-Missouri at Oakland Junior High, which is one of the more challenging […]
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