The Grim Educator

by Cathryn van Kessel

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This site is for educators (and anyone else) who may be interested in the ways that death and evil shape how we interact with others and shape our world.By engaging with the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Ernest Becker, as well as borrowing from terror management theory (TMT) in social psychology, we hope to provoke thinking about how our conscious and unconscious approaches to evil and death impact education (and our lives).We hope to update this site regularly with new ideas and lessons, so keep c

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Publisher
University of Alberta
Subjects
Social Sciences, Education and Professional Development
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 2: Villainification
  7. 2.1: Introductory Lesson Ideas for Villainification
  8. 2.2: Social Studies Heroes and Villains Lesson Plan
  9. 2.3: Textbook Analysis Lesson Ideas
  10. 2.4: Lesson Ideas for Canadian History
  11. 2.5: Hitler the Villain Lesson Plan
  12. 2.6: Comic-Related Lesson Ideas
  13. 2.7: Current Event Lesson Ideas
  14. 3: Fetishizing Evil
  15. 3.1: Teaching Genocide
  16. 3.2: Fetishizing Evil and the Holocaust
  17. 4: Worldview Threat
  18. 4.1: In the Classroom
  19. 4.2: Worldview Threat Across Subject Areas
  20. 4.3: Educating (and Being a Human) During a Pandemic
  21. 5: Teaching as Immortality
  22. 5.1: Teaching as an Immortality Project
  23. 6: Additional Becker and TMT Resources
  24. 6.1: Becker, TMT, and Existentialist Video Resources
  25. Back Matter
  26. Index
  27. Glossary
  28. 6.1: Glossary of Key Becker and TMT Terms
  29. Glossary
  30. Detailed Licensing