Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New "We"

Autor/in	Cutrara, Samantha
Titel	Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New "We"
Quelle	(2020), (256 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-7748-6283-7
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; History Instruction; Educational Change; Student Centered Learning; Nationalism; Area Studies; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Bildungsreform; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Nationalismus; Landeskunde; Kanada
Abstract	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 the evolving demographics of an ethnically and culturally heterogeneous population, "Transforming the Canadian History Classroom" is a call for a radically innovative approach that instead places students -- the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of -- at the centre of history education. Samantha Cutrara offers a practical and theoretical guide to creating a learning environment in which students can investigate the historical narratives that infuse their lives and imagine a future that makes room for their diverse identities. She explores how teaching practices and institutional contexts can support ideas of connection, complexity, and care in order to engender meaningful learning and foster a student-centric history education. Drawing on student and teacher interviews and case studies in schools, this progressive study demonstrates how developing a sense of national identity in all Canadian youth can be grounded in the praxis and pedagogies of today's history education. Both in-training and practising teachers in history and social studies education need this book to inform their work, as do students and scholars of Canadian studies and critical pedagogy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01