As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read MoreWhile conducting classes in Berlin, Germany, THINK Global School received many visits from Dr. Joseph Pearson, a Cambridge historian, writer, and resident of Germany’s capital. In one of these enlightening lectures, Dr. Pearson had the students analyze whether they believe an individual or the collective can change history.
Following this discussion, Dr. Pearson equipped the students to look at the Nazi Regime through various historical perspectives, including: political, social, cultural, and intellectual.
As a wrap-up, Dr. Pearson helped the students decipher who is responsible for the Holocaust by explaining different historians’ theses.
For more on Dr. Pearson’s interaction with TGS, continue your learning with these discussion videos on the Holocaust and the treatment in concentration camps.