Transforming the Canadian History Classroom
Title | Transforming the Canadian History Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Cutrara |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0774862858 |
We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Discourses of nationhood often separate “us” from “them,” and despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive. Responding to the evolving demographics of an ethnically and culturally diverse population, Transforming the Canadian History Classroom advocates for a radically innovative practice that places students – the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of – at the centre of history education.
New Possibilities for the Past
Title | New Possibilities for the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Penney Clark |
Publisher | University of British Columbia Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780774820585 |
"This collection explores and articulates the landscape of history education research and practice in Canada. It does this to help define and refine the research agenda in history teaching and practice, which at the present time take place against a backdrop of public concern about Canadians' abysmal knowledge of their own history and a perceived need for more, and then even more, Canadian history in schools. It is crucial that scholarly research be pursued thoughtfully and in a cohesive manner and that classroom practice be informed by the finding of this research."--Intro.
New Possibilities for the Past
Title | New Possibilities for the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Penney Clark |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2011-08-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0774820616 |
The place of history in school curricula has sparked heated debate in Canada. Is Canadian history dead? Who killed it? Should history be put in the service of nation? Can any history be truly inclusive? New Possibilities for the Past advances the debate by shifting the focus from what should be included in a nation’s history to how we should think about and teach the past. Museum educators, secondary school teachers, historians, and history educators document the state of history education research. They go on to consider the implications of the research for classrooms from kindergarten to graduate school and in other contexts such as museums, virtual environments, and public institutional settings. This book takes into consideration the perspectives of indigenous peoples, the citizens of Quebec, and advocates of citizenship education. This volume sets a comprehensive research agenda for educators, policy-makers, and historians to help students learn about and, more importantly, understand the significance of the past.
Schooling in Transition
Title | Schooling in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Z. Burke |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2011-12-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0802095771 |
An exploration of two centuries of formal education in Canada in which the accomodation of minority needs and local versus central control are recurring themes.
To the Past
Title | To the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wells Sandwell |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080203814X |
Recent years have witnessed a breakdown in consensus about what history should be taught within Canadian schools; there is now a heightened awareness of the political nature of deciding whose history is, or should be, included in social studies and history classrooms. Meanwhile, as educators are debating what history should be taught, developments in educational and cognitive research are expanding our understanding of how best to teach it. To the Past explores some of the political, cultural and educational issues surrounding what history education is, and why we should care about it, in the twenty-first century in Canada. Originally broadcast in the fall of 2002 on the CBC Radio program Ideas, the lectures that comprise this volume not only address how history is taught in Canadian classrooms, but also explore strands within larger discussions about the meaning and purposes of history more generally. Contributors show how Canadians are demonstrating a new interest in what scholars have termed 'historical consciousness' or collective memory, through participation in a wide range of cultural activities, from visiting museums to watching the History Channel. Canadian adults and children alike seem to be seeking answers to questions of identity, meaning, community and nation in their study of the past. Through this series of essays, readers will have the opportunity to explore some of the political and ethical issues involved in this emerging field of Canadian 'citizenship through history' as they learn about public memory and broadly defined history education in Canada.
Canadian Working-class History
Title | Canadian Working-class History PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel Sefton MacDowell |
Publisher | Canadian Scholars’ Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1551302985 |
Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.
Schooling the System
Title | Schooling the System PDF eBook |
Author | Funké Aladejebi |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2021-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0228007046 |
In post–World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers’ college through their careers in the classroom and administration, black women educators encountered systemic racism and gender barriers at every step. So they worked to change the system. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession. By valuing women’s voices and lived experiences, Funké Aladejebi illustrates that black women, as a diverse group, made vital contributions to the creation and development of anti-racist education in Canada. As cultural mediators within Ontario school systems, these women circumvented subtle and overt forms of racial and social exclusion to create resistive teaching methods that centred black knowledges and traditions. Within their wider communities and activist circles, they fought to change entrenched ideas about what Canadian citizenship should look like. As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.