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CANCELED: "Teaching about the Middle East: Strategies for Sustainability and Self-Care"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge; 707 S. Mathews Ave.; Urbana
Date
Mar 24, 2020   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Courtney Dorroll is a professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Religion at Wofford College. She is the Co-Coordinator for Wofford’s Middle East and North African Studies Program and a Mellon Diversity and Inclusion Pedagogical Fellow.
Cost
Free and open to the public.
Contact
Terri Gitler
E-Mail
csames@illinois.edu
Phone
217-265-5016
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Our contemporary moment offers no shortage of politically charged and divisive rhetoric that can make classroom discussion feel fraught. In this presentation, Prof. Courtney Dorroll will share strategies to help teachers at all levels and student teachers create a supportive space for them to discuss these challenges, as well as begin to develop goals and identify potential strategies for productive student dialogue around difficult topics. Prof. Dorroll draws upon her own experiences teaching Islamic Studies and will share examples of in-class student activities for structured dialogue and multiple-viewpoint reflection that can be adapted to a variety of topics. Participants are encouraged to come to the presentation with an example of a challenging topic or a strategy or in-class activity that they have had success with in the past.

Books will be for sale at the event!

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP here:

https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/4176580

or email csames@illinois.edu

 

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