The Historical Thinking Summer Institute
7-12 July 2014, Vancouver, BC
It is offered through UBC’s Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, where the Institute will be held. It is designed for teachers, graduate students, curriculum developers and museum educators who want to enhance their expertise at designing and teaching history courses and programs with explicit attention to historical thinking. Participants will explore substantive themes of aboriginal-settler relations and human-nature relations over time.
Optional course credit is offered through the University of British Columbia.
A limited number of travel bursaries are available on a competitive basis (see http://thenhier.ca/en/content/thenhier-funding-programs).
More information: http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/historical-thinking-summer-institute-2014/
For a comprehensive list of related events, please visit the Upcoming Events page on the site of The History Education Network / Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN|HiER).
The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts
Peter Seixas and Tom Morton
This beautiful and thought-provoking PD resource will help educators to better understand historical thinking and to integrate six historical thinking concepts into classrooms through model activities and teaching strategies.
Each chapter begins with a discussion of how a prominent Canadian author has engaged one of the six concepts while writing a work of history or historical fiction. The second half of each chapter provides practical teaching strategies for working with the concepts at different grade levels, and levels of sophistication.
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Conçu de facture élégante pour inspirer la réflexion, le livre propose des modèles d’activités et des stratégies d’enseignement afin d’aider les enseignants à mieux comprendre la pensée historique et à intégrer les six concepts de la pensée historique dans leur enseignement.
Chacun des chapitres débute par un exposé sur la façon dont un auteur canadien de renom s’est inspiré d’un des six concepts lors de la rédaction d’une recherche ou d’une fiction historique. La seconde partie offre des stratégies pratiques d’enseignement pour utiliser les concepts, et ce, à divers niveaux d’enseignement et de complexité.
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New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada
Penney Clark (ed.)
The place of history in school curricula has sparked heated debate in Canada. Is Canadian history dead? Who killed it? Should history be put in the service of nation? Can any history be truly inclusive?
In this volume, museum educators, secondary school teachers, and leading and emerging historians and history educators define a new agenda for history education research by shifting the focus from content to method, from what should be included in narratives about the past to how to think about and teach history. They document the state of history education theory, research, and practice and consider the implications of research for classrooms from kindergarten to graduate school and in other contexts, including museums, virtual environments, and public institutional settings. They also consider the perspectives of indigenous peoples, the citizens of Quebec, and advocates of citizenship education.
Reflecting current critical engagement among historians, educators, and the Canadian public, New Possibilities for the Past sets a comprehensive research agenda both to help students at all levels learn about the past, and, more importantly, to understand how we construct history from its infinite possibilities.
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