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The Grim Educator
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
- Author
- Cathryn van Kessel
- Publisher
- University of Alberta
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 19 sections
- 02: Villainification
- 2.01: Introductory Lesson Ideas for Villainification
- 2.02: Social Studies Heroes and Villains Lesson Plan
- 2.03: Textbook Analysis Lesson Ideas
- 2.04: Lesson Ideas for Canadian History
- 2.05: Hitler the Villain Lesson Plan
- 2.06: Comic-Related Lesson Ideas
- 2.07: Current Event Lesson Ideas
- 03: Fetishizing Evil
- 3.01: Teaching Genocide
- 3.02: Fetishizing Evil and the Holocaust
- 04: Worldview Threat
- 4.01: In the Classroom
- 4.02: Worldview Threat Across Subject Areas
- 4.03: Educating (and Being a Human) During a Pandemic
- 05: Teaching as Immortality
- 5.01: Teaching as an Immortality Project
- 06: Additional Becker and TMT Resources
- 6.01: Becker TMT and Existentialist Video Resources