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Montgomery, Ken – Journal of Peace Education, 2006
This paper examines the ways in which high school Canadian history textbooks authorized from 1945 to the present have represented national participation in wars and peace-making/keeping operations. I explore how national mythologies of Canada as a kinder, more tolerant, or less violent national body permeate the narratives of national history…
Descriptors: Altruism, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, History Instruction
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Montgomery, Ken – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This paper examines how knowledge about racism has been represented in high school Canadian history textbooks authorized by the Province of Ontario during the 1960s and after the year 2000. I argue that even though historical racisms have increasingly made their way into Canadian history textbooks as valid and important topics of study, the idea…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Social Justice