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Guest speaker: Nathan Lean, Research Director, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Author of "The Islamophobia Industry"
5:00PM Pacific Time/6:00 Mountain/7:00 Central/8:00 East Coast.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Online through Adobe Connect
For Middle School Teachers, grades 6-8 (students’ ages approx. 12-14 years)
Contact: mcclimans.2@osu.edu
Join us for on Oct. 26th at 8pm ET (online) for a webinar discussing Islamophobia which will address concepts of 'cultural diffusion', imperialism, and prominent ideas about the Middle East and Islam based in imperial histories. We will be hosting online a number of distinguished speakers who will discuss the many stereotypes of Islam and Muslim culture, which are rooted in European colonialism. Middle School teachers will find this material useful, and especially 6th grade teachers. Please share this page, or the event on Facebook! Thanks so much.
The purpose of these workshops is to provide opportunities for critical global educators to develop culturally relevant curriculum, and concrete activities for their classrooms which also cover curriculum standards. We will refer mainly to the Middle School standards for teaching about world religions and cultural exchange, with reference to the religious identities of the Middle East. We will develop classroom activities based on images found in the media, academic images of the Middle East, entailing research of what daily life practices relate to these images. There is a need to go beyond “addressing stereotypes". Teachers are reminded often to address stereotypes. But how does one go about doing that? Focused time, spent on gaining substantive knowledge which counters stereotypes, but also the historic origins of stereotypes is needed in order to be prepared for a litany of stereotypes which arise along with the vocabulary words for 6th through 8th grade. In these workshops we will cover the deeper issues which undergird stereotypes, the origins of the stereotypes and how they continue their work despite our best attempts to resist stereotyping and othering.
The workshop will be facilitated by the Assistant Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the Ohio State University, M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and doctoral candidate in Global Education, Ohio State, Melinda McClimans. The curriculum development portion will focus on images in the media. It will be hands-on, revising existing texts and creating new curriculum based on Ohio’s standards for Middle School. We will brainstorm as a group, conduct internet searches, and address the question “How do we imagine the Middle East?”.
