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Danny (Daniel) Maurice Cohen
Annenberg Hall 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 |
Biography
PhD Candidate, Learning SciencesAwards/Honors
Broadly speaking, I'm concerned with how the Holocaust changes our thinking about learning and education.
I've come to realize that I wear three hats...
DESIGN. My training in the British Jewish community led me to focus on Holocaust education and youth program design. My experiences as a youth worker in inner-city London strengthened my interests in creating human rights education and youth leadership programs.
ACTIVISM. My work includes training educators to effectively teach about the Holocaust with the explicit goal of applying lessons from history to contemporary cases of oppression and genocide, particularly of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people.
RESEARCH. I study how educators learn and how their learning impacts their pedagogical decisions. I'm concerned with how collective memories impact the way we educate about the Holocaust and human rights. And I'm interested in the silencing - and unsilencing - of marginalized histories.
2009 - Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University Research Grants Committee
2008 - Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University
2006 - Spencer Foundation
Research/Scholarship
Education
Selected Presentations
Year Degree Institution 2005 MA, Learning Sciences Northwestern University 2001 BSc, Hospitality Management Manchester Metropolitan University
Cohen, D. M. (April, 2007). Using socially constructed memory to design Holocaust education for queer youth. Paper discussion presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL.Research Interests
Umphress, J. F., Miele, D. B., Simons, T. M., & Cohen, D. M. (April, 2006). Re-opening the debate: Introducing social prescription as the key to understanding informal learning. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.
PhD Candidate, Learning Sciences
- Social constructions of genocide and implications for pedagogical theory
- Informal education and youth program design
- Educator and youth work training
- Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education
- The unsilencing of marginalized histories
- LGBT rights education
- Youth leadership and peer-led organizations
Teaching/Advising
Courses
Teach Ed 351 Designing Holocaust Education
This new interdisciplinary seminar focuses on students' responses to various types of
Holocaust education about and for children, teenagers, and young adults. Students
will analyze - and consider how to educate about - the art of children in the Holocaust
and a selection of Holocaust novels and films created for young audiences.
The course includes a trip to the new Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
and a meeting with a Holocaust Survivor artist.
Students choose their own paper topics and seminar presentations based on the
readings, films, and other activities.
Instructors:
Professor Phyllis Lassner (The Writing Program, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies)
and Danny Cohen (PhD Candidate, Learning Sciences, SESP)
Who?
This course is suitable for undergraduates interested in one or more of the following:
-- Educating about the Holocaust in the classroom and beyond
-- Designing learning environments
-- Developing writing skills
-- Holocaust studies
When and where?
Spring 2009 MWF 1-1:50PM 3622 East Tower, Library
Occasional Film Showings on Tuesdays at 6:30PM, Video Theater, Library 2nd floor
This course is cross-listed. Enroll with either
TEACH-ED 351-0 'Designing Holocaust Education'
or ENG 205-0 'Writing and Teaching About Children and The Holocaust'
For more information, please contact:
Professor Phyllis Lassner: phyllisl@northwestern.edu
Danny Cohen: dannymcohen@u.northwestern.edu
Professional
Works In Progress
Position Responsibilities
2007 Youth Workers' Education Design Knowledge
An investigation into how youth workers design educational programs for youth identifying as queer and/or homeless. Includes the design and implementation of an education design training program for Chicago-based youth workers.
2007 Holocaust Education Design
An investigation into how educators design and implement Holocaust education at the college level.
2008 Holocaust Pedagogy Training
Design, implementation, and facilitation of Holocaust pedagogy training for Holocaust educators in the Chicago area.
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Geoffrey Giles
Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust
Northwestern University and the Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2009 and 2008
- Teaching Assitant Fellow
Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, 2007
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Barton Hirsch
Intervention Strategies
Human Development and Psychological Services 303, Spring 2006
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Barton Hirsch
Program Development and Implementation
School of Education and Social Policy 303, Spring 2007
- Teaching Assistant to Dean Penelope Peterson, and Methodological Consultant
Honors Thesis Program 2009-2010
- Teaching Assistant to Assistant Professor Samuel Kwon
Teaching With Technology
Learning Sciences 438, Spring 2008
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Brian Reiser
Design of Learning Environments
Learning Sciences 429, Winter 2007
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Brian Reiser
Introduction to the Design of Learning Environments
Learning Sciences 425, Fall 2007
Employment History
2003 - 2004 Youth Programmes Coordinator, Tower Hamlets Summer University
London
United Kingdom
Design and facilitate Unboxed, a human rights youth exchange program for British and South African teenagers (British Wavemakers Award, 2005). Consult and design programs for Creative Partnerships, a government agency working to promote creativity and arts programs in British schools. Oversee and develop Peer Motivator youth leadership program (London Open College Network accreditation, 2004).
2001 - 2002 Director of Education and Development, Association of Jewish Sixthformers
United Kingdom
Oversee national peer-leadership curriculum. Train youth workers to lead year-round programs, including educational tours to Israel, Eastern-Europe, Southern-Europe, and the American East Coast.
1998 - 1999 Community Youth Worker, South Manchester Jewish Youth Trust
Cheshire
United Kingdom
1996 - 1997 Graduate, Machon L'Madrichei Chutz Le Aretz (International Leadership Institute)
Jerusalem
Israel