Amy von Heyking

Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge

Amy von Heyking is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. Her research interests include history teaching and learning in elementary schools, and history of school curriculum. Her academic publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of Education, History of Education Quarterly, Historical Studies in Education and Canadian Social Studies. She is the author of Creating Citizens: History and Identity in Alberta’s Schools, 1905 to 1980 (University of Calgary Press 2006), and was a contributor to The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers (2008) edited by Penney Clark and Roland Case. She has written and edited numerous teaching resources for elementary school social studies, including four volumes of Teaching with Dear Canada and the Social Studies Through Literature series for Scholastic Canada. She currently serves on the editorial board of Canadian Social Studies.

Dr. von Heyking’s current research projects include a classroom-based investigation of the nature and development of children’s historical empathy, and an historical study of faith-based school programs in Alberta.

Publications, Grants, and Presentations

"Representations of 'Britishness' in Twentieth Century English-Canadian Schools. In Britishness, Identity and Citizenship: The View from Abroad, edited by A. Mycock and C. McGlynn. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, in press.

"Selling Progressive Education to Albertans, 1935-53." In Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education, edited by S. Burke and P. Milewski. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press.

"Historical Thinking in Elementary Education: A Review of the Research." In New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

"Historical Thinking in the Elementary Years." In The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers, edited by Roland Case and  Penney Clark, 99-107. Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

Teaching with Dear Canada, vol. 4. Markham: Scholastic, 2008.

"Fostering a Provincial Identity: Two Eras in Alberta Schooling." Canadian Journal of Education 29(4) (2007): 1-30.

"Matt McCauley." In Dictionary of Canadian Biography On-line, http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42413&query=mccauley, 2007.