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Mairi Cowan; Christoph Richter – History Teacher, 2023
Food is perfectly positioned to link students' lives to the deep and broad historical forces around them. Like everybody else, students procure and consume food on a daily basis, use it to mark special occasions, share it with friends, enjoy or dispute it with families, all perhaps without ever considering its potential for historical analysis.…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Food, Ecology, Undergraduate Study
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Lévesque, Stéphane; Croteau, Jean-Philippe – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
Recent theories of historical consciousness focus on the role narration plays in contemporary people's attempts to give meaning to the past and orient their practical life as citizens. This article examines the need for probing students' historical ideas and for developing narrative competence as a way to engage them critically in contested…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Foreign Countries, History, History Instruction
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S. J. Adrienna Joyce; Ehaab D. Abdou – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Although Canada is portrayed as a benevolent multicultural society, the experiences of many of its racialized peoples point to the ongoing realities of racism. Research demonstrates that schools are central to perpetuating racism, in part through a prioritization of white Eurocentric curricula. But how might ancient history curricula specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Blacks, Textbooks
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Heather Fitzsimmons Frey; Tania Gigliotti – Research in Drama Education, 2024
In living history museums, where young people work and volunteer as historically dressed interpreters, participate in field trips, and attend summer camps, young people can simultaneously represent the past, the present and the future. In these spaces, they also shape the past through their questions, their retellings, and their reimaginings based…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, Theater Arts
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David Bussell – Social Studies, 2024
In recent decades, history and education scholars in the Western world have argued for a constructivist approach to disciplinary thinking in the teaching and learning of History, known as "historical thinking". Yet, there has been little classroom-based empirical research exploring how teachers engage with historical thinking theory,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, History Instruction, Classroom Research, Secondary School Teachers
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Alexander, David Ross – History Teacher, 2023
It was a quest that began over three decades ago when the author began teaching at the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute (OSCVI) in 1984. The school had a long, storied history dating back to 1856 when it first opened its doors to students from Owen Sound and the surrounding area. As a teacher of a survey course in Canadian history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, War, Death
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Bradley, Jon; Allison, Sam – Global Education Review, 2021
In sharp contrast to the musings of a senior student, the mandatory history texts follow a narrow provincial orientation. The recently introduced Quebec high school history program offers adolescents a slanted narrative devoid of larger interconnected contexts as hailed; for example, by Oakeshott (2004), MacMillan (2009), and/or Canadine (2013).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, High School Students, Area Studies
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Wright-Maley, Cory – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
The more than 200 years of chattel slavery in Canada is an example of the country's occluded history predicated on structural racism. This study of preservice elementary teachers in a social studies methods course helps to reveal how the history of Black enslavement in Canada has been effectively erased from the national consciousness. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Slavery, History Instruction
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McGregor, Heather E.; Karn, Sara; Evans, Rebecca S.; Pind, Jackson – Canadian Social Studies, 2022
To demonstrate how the history classroom could become an important site for addressing climate change, this article describes the piloting of three lessons. Our qualitative case study occurred in an elective environmental education course with teacher candidates who participated in the lessons and were invited to provide feedback. We describe the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Climate, Environmental Education, Preservice Teachers
Sara Karn – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Historical empathy involves a process of attempting to understand the thoughts, feelings, experiences, decisions, and actions of people from the past within specific historical contexts. Although historical empathy has been a rich area of study in history education for several decades, this research has largely taken place outside of Canada. In…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Empathy, Teaching Methods
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Bedford, Alison – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This essay engages with scholarship on history as a discipline, curriculum documents and academic and public commentary on the teaching of history in Australian, British and Canadian secondary contexts to better understand the influence of the tension between political pressure and disciplinary practice that drives the history wars in…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, American Indian History
Cutrara, Samantha – University of British Columbia Press, 2020
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. Despite curricular revisions, the mainstream narrative that shapes the way we teach students about the Canadian nation can be divisive, separating "us" from "them." Responding to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Educational Change, Student Centered Learning
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Mairi Cowan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
Research on flexible assessment suggests that providing students with choice in assignments can increase motivation and deepen investment in learning. Although instructors are often advised to adopt flexible assessment, they are also warned about potential detriments such as perceived lack of rigour among colleagues, the stress that…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Assignments, Educational Benefits
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Beyak, Timothy Shawn – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2022
This paper explores an arts-based practitioner action research study that explores the artworks made by students from a Grade 11 History of Canada course in response to teaching and learning about the First World War. The practitioner considers the art-things (Bennett, 2015) of his students and the associated thing-power (Bennett, 2004)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Art, Art Products, High School Students
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Heather E. McGregor; Sara Karn; Micah Flavin – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This article summarizes the results of interviews concerning intersections found among social studies and history education, climate education, and Indigenous studies. We explore what may be involved in curricular and pedagogical reform that better features these intersections, and what considerations arise in approaching reform in schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Climate, Indigenous Knowledge
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