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New Text Book Available A new textbook on Saddam Hussein by our center Outreach Coordinator, Shiva Balaghi, is now available. Click this link for more information
The Kevorkian Center has been designated by the United States Department of Education as a National Resource Center. Outreach to educators is a main priority at our Center. A core component of the Kevorkian Center’s outreach work involves working with K-12 educators by organizing teacher training seminars and developing curricular materials. Our faculty, students, and colleagues participate in a variety of ways: writing essays for our web-based text, giving lectures at our seminars, and preparing course materials. The positive feedback we receive from the educators who attend our programs is especially gratifying. A teacher from Hillside High School described the importance of our outreach work: “The Kevorkian Center provides a thorough and balanced exposure of the Middle East to school teachers faced with the veritable dearth of district wide educational resources on the subject. As a teacher in a culturally diverse high school, with a growing population of students from Middle Eastern countries, I rely on the Kevorkian Center's outreach program to provide me with the resources necessary to expose all of my students to Middle Eastern culture, history and literature. .... The host of presenters at the many free seminars facilitate approaches to teaching Middle Eastern subjects within the traditional framework and sensibilities of the American public school. The programs at the center offer an invaluable connection between diverse cultures, thus creating the necessary bridge between the two. This, now more than ever, is critical if we are to offer a complete and culturally unbiased education to our students.....”
Saturday Seminars for Teachers In 2003, together with NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the Kevorkian Center at NYU began the Saturday Seminars for Teachers which take place throughout the academic year. The seminars combine lectures by the most respected scholars in our field with pedagogy workshops designed by the NYU School of Education. Whenever possible, we work with cultural organizations in the NY area such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Video Resources to coordinate special pedagogy sessions or field trips so the teachers become aware of other educational resources in the NY area. Past seminar topics have included: Politics and Archaeology in the Middle East, Popular Culture in the Middle East, Gender and Youth Culture in the Middle East, European Colonialism and the Middle East, and Perspectives on Nationalism in Palestine and Israel. For information on our Saturday Seminars for Teachers, see the Teacher Training section of this web site. Virtual Classroom Project The Virtual Classroom makes original curricular materials available to teachers free of charge. It features original essays by experts, primary documents, illustrated time lines, slide shows, and lesson plans designed by NYU School of Education students as part of their own teacher training. The first unit on the rise of Islam and Andalusia is already available on our website. The second unit on Imperialism and Nationalism in the Middle East is currently under production. For access to our web-based curricular materials, see the Teaching Materials section of this site. Video Collection The Kevorkian Center houses one of the largest Middle East related video libraries at an American university. The video library is available to educators in the tri-state area for classroom use. To borrow films from our video collection, please contact our video librarian,Jolynn Khamky at jkhamky@gmail.com |
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