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Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust
does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and
unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance,
empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the
Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many
disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for
students. Using a vast array of source materials-from literature
and film to survivor testimonies and interviews-the contributors
demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and
painful subjects within their specific historical and social
contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for
teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and
the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how
students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances
surrounding it.
Educators today are challenged with the task of designing curricula
and standards for students of varying abilities. While technology
and innovation steadily improve classroom learning, teachers and
administrators continue to struggle in developing the best
methodologies and practices for students with disabilities. Models
for Effective Service Delivery in Special Education Programs brings
together case studies and academic research on successful classroom
models and practices to provide rewarding learning environments for
students with disabilities. This publication is an essential
reference source for special education teachers, supervisors,
directors, and administrators, as well as academicians and
researchers interested in developing special education programs
within school districts and classrooms.
This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history
of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and
within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates
that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are
uniquely Irish and are defined by the peculiarities of life on a
small island on the edge of Europe. What is equally apparent,
though, is that the Irish sporting world is unique only in part;
much of the history of Irish sport is a shared history with that of
other societies. Drawing on an unparalleled range of sources -
government archives, sporting institutions, private collections,
and more than sixty local, national, and international newspapers -
this volume offers a unique insight into the history of the British
Empire in Ireland and examines the impact that political partition
has had on the organization of sport there. Paul Rouse assesses the
relationship between sport and national identity, how sport
influences policy-making in modern states, and the ways in which
sport has been colonized by the media and has colonized it in turn.
Each chapter of Sport and Ireland contains new research on the
place of sport in Irish life: the playing of hurling matches in
London in the eighteenth century, the growth of cricket to become
the most important sport in early Victorian Ireland, and the
enlistment of thousands of members of the Gaelic Athletic
Association as soldiers in the British Army during the Great War.
Rouse draws out the significance of animals to the Irish sporting
tradition, from the role of horse and dogs in racing and hunting,
to the cocks, bulls, and bears that were involved in fighting and
baiting.
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