"Anti-Glocality" Grounds New Quebec History Program

Autor/inn/en	Bradley, Jon; Allison, Sam
Titel	"Anti-Glocality" Grounds New Quebec History Program
Quelle	In: Global Education Review, 8 (2021) 2-3, S.168-178 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2325-663X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; History Instruction; High School Students; Area Studies; Curriculum Development; Propaganda; Nationalism; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Landeskunde; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Nationalismus; Kanada
Abstract	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). In our view, secondary students are forced to travel a historical journey that deals with Canadian and Quebec events through a "unique" Quebec lens (Woods, 2014). The widely engrained twenty-first century concept of global interconnectedness, first articulated on a wide scale over a hundred years ago (Wells, 1920), has been replaced by one anchored in a retro-nineteenth-century construct viewing only carefully selected unconnected historical snippets devoid of a contextualized narrative. Anchored in a narrow political perspective, this secondary course of study forces adolescents into a stilted and fragmented "patch-work" historical landscape. This journey silences many voices, brushes others from the chronicle, and twists recognized historiography to fit a specific contemporary self-determined internalized orientation. We review the official course of study to unpack several major world themes demonstrating this constrained point-of-view via a close investigation of one of the approved English language student texts. Further, we illustrate how the deliberate manipulation of historical stories, as well as "alternate facts," leads adolescents into a realm deprived of meaningful connections. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Mercy College New York. 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Tel: 914-674-7350; Fax: 914-674-7351; Web site: http://ger.mercy.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/4/11