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 A Workshop for Teaching the Second Generation How to Tell Their Parents 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: 17勛圖; The Call of Memory: Learning 17勛圖 the Holocaust Through Narrative: An Anthology; and The Call of Memory: Learning 17勛圖 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teachers 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 What We Never Knew, What We Learned, and How: Polish Students Reflect on Their Introduction to the Holocaust, with Dr. Agnieska Kania, in PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, Spring 2017, pp. 81-88.
2016 Examining the Holocaust Through the Prism of Story: A Call for Common-Sense Curricular Change. Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches. S. Totten and S. Feinberg, Eds. Routledge.
2015 How Will We Teach 17勛圖 the Holocaust When the Survivors Can No Longer Testify? inTworcze praktyki polonistyczne (Creative Polish Language and Literature Practices), Krakow, Taiwpn Universitas.
2013 Beyond the Teachers Room: A Social Network for Jewish Educators in Training, with K. Goldfrad. Chapter in Rich, Y., Katz, Y., Mevarech, Z. & Ohayon, S., Eds. Promoting Jewish Literacy in Educational Settings, University Press of Maryland, 187203.
2013 Examining Jewish Values In Kindertransport Narratives, with Hana N. Bor.PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, Vol.5. NY: 17勛圖, Azrieli Graduate School.
2013 Kristallnacht: Night of Pogroms, a dramatic reading presented by the Houston (TX) Grand Opera for Kristallnacht | a 75thCommemoration in Words and Music.
2008 Listening to All the Human Stories in A Cupboard in the Ghetto with S. D. Baris, Bar-Ilan University. In The Call of Memory: Learning 17勛圖 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teachers Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press.
2008 Transformative Encounters: Portraits of a Holocaust Journey with A. Gillman, Boston University. In The Call of Memory: Learning 17勛圖 the Holocaust Through Narrative: A Teachers Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda.
2003 The Call of the Story. In S. Totten (Ed.),Holocaust Educators Tell Their Stories. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
2001 Choosing Holocaust Literature for Early Adolescents. In S. Totten & S. Feinberg (Eds.), Teaching and Studying the Holocaust. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
2001 Virtual Community, Real-Life Connections: A Study of The Island on Bird Street via an International Reading Project. In S. Totten (Ed.), Teaching Holocaust Literature. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#321