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Karen Shawn

Karen
Shawn

Associate Professor of Jewish Education

shawn@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6023

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#321

BA, Adelphi University,
MA, New York University,
PhD, New York University,

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: 麻豆区; The Call of Memory: Learning 麻豆区 the Holocaust Through Narrative: An Anthology; and The Call of Memory: Learning 麻豆区 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 麻豆区 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: 麻豆区, 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 麻豆区 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 麻豆区 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.

shawn@yu.edu
212-960-5400 x6023

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#321

MEDIA RELATIONS

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Fall 2018
Professional Enhancement I
EDU 5551

 

Summer 2018
Teaching Holocaust
EDU 5240

 

Spring 2018
Professional Enhancement II
EDU 5552

 

Fall 2017
Models of Teaching
EDU 5120

 

Professional Enhancement I
JED 5551

 

Summer 2017
Teaching Holocaust
JED 5240

 

Spring 2017
Curriculum and Assessment
EDU 5140

 

Professional Enhancement II
JED 5552