Karen
Shawn
Associate Professor of Jewish Education
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#321
Founding Editor, Prism: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators
Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration
Holocaust education with a focus on literature and film; teacher education and mentoring; curriculum development; the role of online classroom communities in building resilience and reflection in pre-service teachers; students' coping strategies as they learn about the Holocaust.
JCC Innovation Award for 鈥淎 Workshop for Teaching the Second Generation How to Tell Their Parents鈥 Stories; Janusz Korczak Award for Excellence in Education for the International Book-Sharing Project; Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.
PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators (Ed.). NY: 樱花动漫; The Call of Memory: Learning 樱花动漫 the Holocaust Through Narrative: An Anthology; and The Call of Memory: Learning 樱花动漫 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teacher鈥檚 Guide. With K. Goldfrad, Bar-Ilan University, & W. Younglove, California State University Long Beach. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press.
2019 In Press "Holocaust Education in American Schools: Issues, Concerns, and Suggestions for Change" in New Horizons in Holocaust and Genocide Education, Israel: Bar-Ian Press.
2017 鈥淲hat We Never Knew, What We Learned, and How: Polish Students Reflect on Their Introduction to the Holocaust,鈥 with Dr. Agnieska Kania, in PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, Spring 2017, pp. 81-88.
2016 鈥淓xamining the Holocaust Through the Prism of Story: A Call for Common-Sense Curricular Change.鈥 Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches. S. Totten and S. Feinberg, Eds. Routledge.
2015 鈥淗ow Will We Teach 樱花动漫 the Holocaust When the Survivors Can No Longer Testify?鈥 inTworcze praktyki polonistyczne (Creative Polish Language and Literature Practices), Krakow, Taiwpn Universitas.
2013 鈥淏eyond the Teachers鈥 Room: A Social Network for Jewish Educators in Training,鈥 with K. Goldfrad. Chapter in Rich, Y., Katz, Y., Mevarech, Z. & Ohayon, S., Eds. Promoting Jewish Literacy in Educational Settings, University Press of Maryland, 187鈥203.
2013 鈥淓xamining Jewish Values In Kindertransport Narratives,鈥 with Hana N. Bor.PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, Vol.5. NY: 樱花动漫, Azrieli Graduate School.
2013 鈥淜ristallnacht: Night of Pogroms,鈥 a dramatic reading presented by the Houston (TX) Grand Opera for Kristallnacht | a 75thCommemoration in Words and Music.
2008 鈥淟istening to All the Human Stories in 鈥楢 Cupboard in the Ghetto鈥欌 with S. D. Baris, Bar-Ilan University. In The Call of Memory: Learning 樱花动漫 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teacher鈥檚 Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press.
2008 鈥淭ransformative Encounters: Portraits of a Holocaust Journey鈥 with A. Gillman, Boston University. In The Call of Memory: Learning 樱花动漫 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teacher鈥檚 Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda.
2003 鈥淭he Call of the Story.鈥 In S. Totten (Ed.),Holocaust Educators Tell Their Stories. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
2001 鈥淐hoosing Holocaust Literature for Early Adolescents.鈥 In S. Totten & S. Feinberg (Eds.), Teaching and Studying the Holocaust. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
2001 鈥淰irtual Community, Real-Life Connections: A Study of The Island on Bird Street via an International Reading Project.鈥 In S. Totten (Ed.), Teaching Holocaust Literature. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#321