Unsettling Narratives : Teaching about Genocide in a Settler Space.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalbo, George.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

Genocide education has become increasingly popular and prevalent in the United States over the past decade. However, genocide is all-too-often taught as something that occurred in the past, or is happening far away. What does it mean to teach about genocide in a settler colonial nation-state that has yet to fully reckon with its violent past? Unsettling Narratives: Teaching About Genocide in a Settler Space examines how high school students and their teacher navigated learning and teaching about genocide and mass violence in the context of a semester-long comparative genocide and human rights elective course in rural south-central Wisconsin. Specifically, how students and their teacher individually and collectively navigated the "difficult knowledge" of learning about settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the United States during the nineteenth century, the legacies of genocide and mass violence at the intersections of U.S. and Indigenous societies during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the enduring legacies of white supremacy and "settlerness". It reveals the complexities, limits, and possibilities of teaching and learning about genocide in the contemporary United States.

Contents:

Intro

Prologue Settling Down ( DeWitt, Wisconsin

Chapter 1 Introduction: Settler Space

Dewitt, Wisconsin: Settler Space / Indigenous Land

Researching Genocide Education in DeWitt

Revealing and Concealing Genocides

Settlerness

Outline of the Chapters that Follow

A Note on Terminology

Settlers

Indigenous

Holocaust

Genocide Education

K-12 Public Schooling

A Note on Citational Practices

Chapter 2 Becoming a Genocide Educator

The Banks of the Ohi:yo'

Exchanges in Traungau

Teaching and Learning on Mni Sóta Maḳoce

Chapter 3 Settlerness in Social Studies Education

Framing Genocide Education in U.S. Schools

Settler Colonialism

Difficult Histories and Difficult Knowledge

Difficult Histories

Difficult Knowledge

Multidirectional Memory

View From the Field of Social Studies Education

Chapter 4 History of Genocide Education (in a Settler Colonial Nation-State)

Genocide Education in These United States

Defining Genocide Education

Defining Genocide

"Uniqueness" of the Holocaust

Studying Genocides Comparatively

Forgotten or Hidden Genocides

The Question of Indigenous Genocide

The Question of Black Genocide

History of Genocide Education in the United States

Roots in Holocaust and Human Rights Education (the 1970s and 1980s)

Holocaust Education

Human Rights Education

The Emergence of Genocide Education (the 1990s and 2000s)

Genocide Education and the Struggle for Relevance (the 2010s to Today)

#GenocideEducation

Genocide Education in Wisconsin

Act 30: Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Wisconsin

Act 31: American Indian Studies in Wisconsin

Chapter 5 Talking to Teachers About Genocide

Genocide Education in an Age of Pandemic

Genocide Education in Practice

Centering the Holocaust.

"Uniqueness" Of the Holocaust

"Difficult" Encounters

Including "Other" Genocides

Comparing Narratives

Competing Narratives

Identity Matters

Teacher Identity

Student Identity

"Us" and "Them"

Heritage Narratives

The Global-Local Nexus

Fostering Global Awareness

Local Resources for International Understanding

Logics of Erasure

Absent and Absented Indigenous Genocide

Creating National Narratives

Potential and Limitations of Genocide Education

Chapter 6 Genocide and Human Rights, a High School Elective Course

DeWitt, Wisconsin

DeWitt Junior-Senior High School

The Class: Genocide and Human Rights

Students Enrolled in Genocide and Human Rights

Researching Genocide and Human Rights

Chapter 7 Teaching and Learning About Genocide in a Settler Space

Genocide and Human Rights High School Elective Course

The Role of the Holocaust in Genocide Education

First Class Session

Field Trip

Student Identities and "Other Genocides"

The Irish Potato Famine

Black Genocide

Time and Space

The 1936 Berlin and 2022 Beijing Olympics

White Supremacy and Genocide Education

Swastikas in the Bathroom

Talking with Students About Swastikas at DeWitt

Talking with Adults at DeWitt

Ms. B

Indigenous Genocide and Settlerness

Imagining "Indians"

Genocide and Justice in Settler Colonial Nation-States

Teaching and Learning in Settler Spaces

Putting Stalin on Trial

Small Town Values

It Can / Could Happen Here

Final Reflections

Chapter 8 (Un)settling Narratives: The Limits and Possibilities of Genocide Education

Discussion

Settlerness and Revealing and Concealing Genocides

Limitations and Implications for Further Research (and Teaching)

Limitations

Implications for Further Research.

Recommendations for Teachers

Unsettlings (Rather Than Conclusions)

Epilogue Settling In ( DeWitt, Wisconsin

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781804419519

1804419516