Transforming the Canadian History Classroom

Imagining a New "We"

By Samantha Cutrara
Categories: K-12 Education, Education
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774862837, 256 pages, October 2020
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774862844, 256 pages, October 2020
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774862851, 256 pages, October 2020
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774862868, 215 pages, June 2020

Table of contents

1 Meaningful Learning: Imagining a New “We”

2 The Present of Today’s Past: Current Trends and Curriculum

3 Students Speak: A Desire for Connected, Complex Canadian History

4 Teaching the Others in the Room: Limiting Connection, Removing Complexity

5 Meaningful Sites of Teaching: The Need for Time, Space, and Place

6 Historic Space: Meaningful Learning in Canadian History

Notes; Works Cited; Index

Description

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.

Reviews

...I see tremendous value in the visions, ideas, and practices in this book.

- Michael Capello