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Towards a pedagogy for difficult histories: Insights from Holocaust education
This online event reflects upon teaching 'difficult histories' through the lens of Holocaust education. Andy Pearce is an Associate Professor in Holocaust & History Education at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The session is hosted by Helen Knowler, academic lead for UCL's Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP).
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4/11/2024
Integrating teaching on ‘sensitive’ topics into your lessons: a framework
Jayne Kavanagh draws on her ten years’ experience of facilitating UCL medical student sessions on so called ‘sensitive’ topics – abortion, FGM and domestic abuse – to open up discussion on integrating teaching on ‘sensitive’ topics into the curriculum.
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3/26/2024
Disagreeing Well introductory video
Can you see both sides of an argument? And develop an informed opinion? Watch our short animation on why it is important to be able to disagree well in an increasingly polarised world.
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1/11/2024
Teaching difficult and/or sensitive topics: Three starting points
A 30-minute taster session from Helen Knowler (ELEP) exploring some of the challenges and opportunities for educators when planning to teach difficult and/or sensitive topics in higher education.
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11/23/2023
How can we disagree well at UCL?
Watch UCL’s ‘Disagreeing Well’ internal debate on June 28th 2023 at the Bloomsbury Theatre. The first event on Disagreeing Well with a simple purpose: to introduce staff and students to what is involved in successfully disagreeing and to highlight why it is such an important skill for all of us at UCL to learn.
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10/26/2023
Curating content: tackling difficult topics in the age of activism (Prof Alice Stevenson)
The event is organised by UCL’s Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP), a programme of education activity to help address UCL's harmful historical links to eugenics. In this session, Alice Stevenson talks through her experience of teaching Museum Studies, the curriculum for which has had to radically change over the last six years to reflect a rapidly changing sector.
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10/26/2023
UCL Uncovering Politics: Taking Offence
Episode Summary This week we ask: Is there value in taking offence? Indeed, should we cultivate a readiness to take offence in ourselves and others? Episode Notes This week we welcome Dr Emily McTernan, co-host of this podcast, into the guest seat. Emily is talking about her new book, On Taking Offence. In it, she argues that taking offence is an important and often valuable response to affronts against our social standing, and that it deserves to be taken more seriously by scholars than it has been (and perhaps less seriously than it might be seen by some sections of society).
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10/12/2023