History as a "GPS": On the Uses of Historical Narrative for French Canadian Students' Life Orientation and Identity

Autor/in	Lévesque, Stéphane
Titel	History as a "GPS": On the Uses of Historical Narrative for French Canadian Students' Life Orientation and Identity
Quelle	In: London Review of Education, 15 (2017) 2, S.227-242 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-8479
Schlagwörter	French Canadians; Self Concept; Foreign Countries; Personal Narratives; History; History Instruction; High School Students; College Students; Student Attitudes; Cultural Pluralism; Canada Natives; Indigenous Populations; Foreign Policy; English; Official Languages; Teaching Methods; Knowledge Level; Questionnaires + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frankokanadier; Selbstkonzept; Ausland; Erlebniserzählung; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Kulturpluralismus; Sinti und Roma; Außenpolitik; English language; Englisch; Office language; Amtssprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Wissensbasis; Fragebogen
Abstract	This article presents the results of a study that analyses students' historical narratives of the nation in relation to historical consciousness and how their sense of self-identification with groups affects their narrative structure and orientation. This study was conducted with French Canadian students registered in two high schools (n = 58) and one university (n = 18) in Ottawa, the federal capital of Canada. I found that a strong sense of identification leads young people to construct more engaging and militant stories of the collective past, with greater historical appropriation (using the collective "we") and a sense of continuity with past actualities. I then discuss the implications of this study for research on the narrative competence of historical consciousness and what history education might do in school to promote historical consciousness in Canada. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01