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Executive Board Member Publications Since 2007

Penney Clark, THEN/HiER Director, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Editor. Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

"Introduction." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With Peter Seixas. "Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

"Review." Leslie Howsam. Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850-1950. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 48(1) (2010), in press.

With Yesman Post."'A Natural Outcome of Free Schools': The Free Text-Book Branch in British Columbia, 1908-1949." Historical Studies in Education, 21(2) (2009): 23-45.

"'Great Chorus of Protest.' The Ontario Booksellers' Response to the 1909 Eaton's Readers." History of Education 38(5) (2009): 681-703.

"‘The Most Fundamental of All Learning Tools’: An Historical Investigation of Textbook Controversies in English Canada." In Auf der Suche nach der wahren Art von Textbüchern 9, edited by Marc Depaepe and Angelo Van Gorp, 123-42. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. (Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Schulbuchforschung, 7), 2009.

"Bringing Diverse Groups Together to Enrich History Education." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 69-72.

"'Reckless Extravagance and Utter Incompetence:' George Ross and the Toronto Textbook Ring, 1883-1907." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46(2) (2008): 185-235.

Edited with Roland Case. The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers. Vancouver BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

Edited with Roland Case. The Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Secondary Teachers. Vancouver BC: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

"The Rise and Fall of Textbook Publishing in English Canada." In History of the Book in Canada, 1918-1980 Vol. III, edited by C. Gerson and J. Michon, 226-32, 538-39. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. French version:  "Essor et decline de l’édition scolaire au Canada anglais." In Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada, Vol. III, edited by C. Gerson and J. Michon, 240-46. Montréal: Les presses de l’université de Montreal, 2007.

"Representations of Aboriginal Peoples in English Canadian History Textbooks: Toward Reconciliation." In Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation, edited by Elizabeth A. Cole, 81-120. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 2007.

With Michael Cromer. "Getting Graphic with the Past: Graphic Novels and the Teaching of History." Theory and Research in Social Education 35(4): 574-91, 2007.

 

Jennifer Bonnell, Ph. D., Graduate Student Coordinator

With Gene Desfor. "Nature as an Agent of Urbanization: Changing Toronto’s Lower Don River in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries. In Toronto’s Changing Waterfront, edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press.

"Refuge and Subsistence in an Urban Borderland: The Lower Don River Valley, 1910-1931." In Toronto's Changing Waterfront, edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press.

Review of Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History by Alan MacEachern and William J. Turkel, eds. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009; and review of The Archive of Place by William J. Turkel. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Canadian Historical Review, in press.

"Bringing Back the Don River: Sixty Years of Community Action." In HtO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to
Low-Flow Toilets, edited by Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2008.

Review of Megaprojects website, by Joy Parr and  Jon van der Veen. Left History 13(1) ( 2008): 191-93.

"A Comforting Past: Skirting Conflict and Complexity at Montgomery’s Inn." Journal of Canadian Studies 42(1) (2008): 127-153.

With Roger Simon. "Difficult Exhibitions and Intimate Encounters,"  Museum and Society 5(2): 65-85.
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html

 

Margaret Conrad, Professor and CRC, University of New Brunswick

"A Brief Survey of Canadian Historiography." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With James K. Hiller. Atlantic Canada: A History, 2nd. ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2010.

With Jocelyn Létourneau and David Northrup. "Canadians and Their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness." The Public Historian 31(1) (2009): 15-34.

With Alvin Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples, Vol. 1: Beginnings to1867, 5th ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2009.

With Alvin Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples, Vol 2: 1867 to the Present, 5th ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2009.

"Navigating Historical Controversies with Integrity." Public History in Canada, 2008.

"History Does Matter: The Future of the Past in Atlantic Canada." Literary Review of Canada 16(8) (2008): 3-5.

"Public History and its Discontents, or History in the Age of Wikipedia." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 2008:1-26.

With Corey Slumkoski and Lisa Charlong. "History on the Internet: The Atlantic Canada Portal." Acadiensis XXXVII (1) (2008):100-09.

Edited with Alvin Finkel. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History, 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2008.

Edited with Alvin Finkel. Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian History, 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2008.

Co-creator of three websites of primary documentary materials and learning resources for the Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives (http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/)

Loyalist Women in New Brunswick, 1783-1827 (2008)
Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, 1783-1854 (2008)
The MacDonald Family Letters, 1779-1801 (2009)

 

Anne Marie Goodfellow, Ph.D., THEN/HiER Network Manager

Speaking of Indigenous Languages: Issues in Revitalization (ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Simon Girty: Crossing Over. DVD (producer). Vancouver: Ace in the Hole Productions Inc., 2008.

Textual Evidence of the Life of Simon Girty, American Revolutionary Turncoat: An Historian's Guide to the Draper Manuscript Collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

 

Viviane Gosselin, Curator of Contemporary Issues, Museum of Vancouver

"Historical Thinking in the Museum: Open to Interpretation." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With Peter Seixas and Kadriye Ercikan. "Canadians Confront the History Wars." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 50-54.

With David Anderson. "Private and Public Memories of Expo '67: A Case Study of Montreal World’s Fair, 40 Years After the Event." Museum and Society 6(1) (2008): 1-21.

With Susan Ashley and Jennifer Parker. "NaMU: EU Museum Project Connects and Educates Scholars from Around the World." Muse 26(6) (2008): 36-9.

"Ambitious and Daring: North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery." Muse 26(4) (2008): 32-5.

"Mapping New Trajectories: The Case of the Exhibition Frontières at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France." In NaMu III: National Museums in a Global World. Linköping University Electronic Press, Sweden, 2007.
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/031/011/ecp0703111.pdf

 

Jan Haskings-Winner, President, Ontario History and Social Sciences Teachers' Association

With Robert Mewhinney. Making Economic Choices. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2010.

With E. Freeman-Shaw. Canadian Sources: Investigated 1914 to the Present. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008.

With Robert Mewhinney. Passport to Civics. Toronto: Pippen Publishing, 2008.

With Robert Mewhinney, Bernie Rubinstein, Bob Aitken, Pina Sacco, Allan Hux and Marc Keirstead. Their Stories, Our History: Development of a Nation. Toronto: Thomson Duval, 2007.

 

Kevin Kee, Associate Professor and CRC, Brock University

With Nicki Darbyson. "Creating and Using Virtual Environments to Promote Historical Thinking." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With John Bachynski. "Outbreak: Lessons Learned from Developing a 'History Game.'" In Loading, edited by The Canadian Game Studies Association, in press.

With Tamara Vaughn and Shawn Graham. "'Sometimes, Graphics Get in the Way': An Exploration of Interactive Fiction in the Classroom." In Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning, edited by Young Kyun Baek. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, in press.

With John Bonnett. "Transitions: A Prologue, Program and Preview for Digital Humanities Research in Canada." Introduction to
edited collection, Digital Studies, in press.

With Shawn Graham, Pat Dunae, John Lutz, Andrew Large, Michel Blondeau and Mike Clare. "Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming," Canadian Historical Review 90(2) (2009): 303-26.

"Computerized History Games: Options for Narratives," Simulation and Gaming December 2008. http://sag.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/1046878108325441v1

"Liberty vs. Security in the Shadow of 9/11: Facilitating the Debate in the Classroom." In The Emperor’s New Computer: ICT, Teachers and Teaching, edited by Tony Dipetta. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2008.

"H.T. Crossley." In Religion Past and Present Volume III: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion: Chu-Deu, edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, and Bernd Janowski. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. (translation of article in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4).

With Jamshid Beheshti, Andrew Large, and Charles Cole. "'A Journey to the Past: A Quebec Village in 1890': A Test Case for Best Practices for History Simulations." Proceedings of the 2006 Future Play Conference.

 

Jocelyn Létourneau, Professor and CRC, Université Laval

"The Debate on History Education in Québec." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With Margaret Conrad and David Northrup. "Canadians and their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness," The Public Historian 31(1) (2009): 15-34.

"Remembering (from) Where you are Going: Memory as Legacy and Inheritance." In Canadian Cultural Studies, edited by Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou, 248-75. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

« Transmettre la culture comme mémoire et identité : Au cœur du débat sur l’éducation historique des jeunes Québécois, » Revue française de pédagogie,165 (October/November/December 2008): 43-54.

With Christophe Caritey. « L’histoire du Québec racontée par les élèves du secondaire : L’impact apparent du cours d’histoire nationale dans la structuration d’une mémoire historique collective chez les jeunes Québécois, » Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 62(1) (2008): 69-93.

« Bogumil Jewsiewicki ou l’histoire comme exploration savante. » In Une histoire en partage : images, mémoires et savoirs. Mélanges offerts à Bogumil Jewsiewicki, pref. of Pierre Nora, edited by Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem and Elizabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, 11-19. Paris : Khartala, 2009.

"History in Post-Historical Times," Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens, Fall 2008: 70-72.

« L’histoire est-elle (dé)passée? » Le Devoir, 18/19 octobre 2008, p. G1.

 

Stéphane Lévesque, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

"What it Means to Think Historically." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

« La pensée historique et l'enseignement d'enjeux contentieux : l'expérience des élèves qui étudient la Crise d'octobre. » In La prise en compte de la diversité à l'école publique : Jusqu'où? Comment?, edited by M. McAndrew. Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, in press.

Review of L’enseignement de l’histoire au début du XXIe siècle au Québec by Michel Sarra-Bournet and Félix Bouvier. Recherches sociographiques 1 (2010): 3.

"Historical Literacy In 21st Century Ontario: Research Using The Virtual Historian©." Research Report. Conseil canadien sur l’apprentissage, 2009. http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Research/FundedResearch/20091204StéphaneLévesque.htm

With T. Stanley, S. Cook, R. Heap, L. McLean, and N. Ng-A-Fook. Curriculum Research and Benchmarking to Support the Curriculum Review in Social Studies Grades 1 to 6, History Grades 7 and 8, And the Canadian and World Studies Grades 9 to 12 (History Component). Ministry of Education, Ontario, 2009.

"The Impact of Digital Technologies and the Need for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Lessons from the Virtual Historian." In The Emperor's New Computer: Reflections on the Impact of Information and Communications Technology on Teachers and Teaching, edited byTony Di Petta, 17-28. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2009.

"Rethinking Citizenship Education in Canada." In Beyond National Dreams: Essays on Canadian Nationalism and Citizenship, edited by R. Blake & A. Nurse, 131-54. FitzHenry Whiteside, 2009.

« L'enseignement par situation-problème : l'expérience des élèves de l'Ontario. » Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 73-7.

"Rapport de recherche sur le programme-cadre d'études canadiennes et mondiales (9e - 12e année)." Toronto : Ministère de l'Éducation de l'Ontario, 2009.

"'Terrorism Plus Canada in the 1960's Equals Hell Frozen Over': Learning the October Crisis with Computer Technology in the Canadian Classroom." Canadian Journal of Learning Technology 34(2) (2008): 53-74.

Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Et al. Report to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Ministry Advisory Committee. Ottawa: Her Majesty the Queen of Canada, 2008. http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/conslttn/dp-hr/index-eng.cfm

"Can Computational Technology Improve Students' Historical Thinking? Experience from the Virtual Historian with Grade 10 Students." Journal of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers Association (2007): 19-21.

"Rethinking the 'Bush Doctrine': Historical Thinking and Post-September 11 Terrorism." International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research (2007) 7.
http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/historyresource/journal13/Levesque,%2008.pdf

 

Ruth Sandwell, Associate Professor, OISE/UT

"History is a Verb: Teaching Historical Practice to Teacher Education Students." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

"Reflections on the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project: A Pedagogical Perspective." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 88-92.

"Missing Canadians: Reclaiming the A-Liberal Past." In Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution, edited by Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, 246-73. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

"History as Experiment: Microhistory and Environmental History." In Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History,  edited by Alan McEachern and William Turkel, 122-36. Toronto: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2008.

"Using Primary Documents in History and Social Studies." In The Anthology of Social Studies: Secondary Education, edited by Roland Case and Penney Clark, 293-305. Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 2008.

  

Peter Seixas, Professor and CRC, University of British Columbia

"A Modest Proposal for Change in Canadian History Education,” International Review of History Education (revised and expanded version of the non-refereed Teaching History article below), in press.

“University-Based Research on History Didactics: A Canadian Story.” In J. Hodel & B. Ziegler (Hg.) Forschungswerkstatt empirisch 09. Beiträge zur Tagung "geschichtsdidaktik empirisch 07" (Geschichtsdidaktik heute, Band 3). Bern: hep, in press.

With Penney Clark. "Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

With Kadriye Ercikan. "Assessment of Higher Order Thinking: The Case of Historical Thinking." In Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, edited by G. Schraw. Scottsdale, Arizona: Information Age Publishing, in press.

"Assessment of Historical Thinking." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.
French version:
« Évaluation de la réflexion historique ». In Histoire, musées et éducation à la citoyenneté, edited by Jean-François Cardin, Marc-André Éthier, and Anik Meunier, 247-263. Collection cahiers de l’Institut du patrimoine de l’UQAM. Québec: Éditions MultiMondes, 2009.

With Kadriye Ercikan and Viviane Gosselin. “Cuestionar el pasado: los canadienses ante las polemicas historiograficas.” Ciudadania: Didactica de las Ciencias Sociales, Geografia e Historia 64 (2010): 58-66.

"A Modest Proposal for Change in Canadian History Education." Teaching History 137 (2009): 26-30.

"Pondering the Past: Six Great Tips to Get Your Students Thinking Historically," Teaching Canada's History: A Special Publication of Canada's History Society (September 2009): 16-23.

“Prologue” to Creating Canada: A History – 1914 to the Present by Jill Colyer, pp. 5-11. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2009.

With Kadriye Ercikan and Viviane Gosselin. "Canadians Confront the History Wars." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 50-54.

"Imperial America." Review of The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors by James Laxer, and What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright. Literary Review of Canada 16(9) (2008): 23-4.  Revised and reprinted online as "America: Bad to the Bone?" The Tyee (Jan. 16, 2009) http://www.thetyee.ca/Books/2009/01/16/USHistory/

“National History and Beyond: An Introduction,” Journal of Curriculum Studies 41(6) (2009): 719-22.

"'People’s History' in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology." In Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts, edited by S. Berger, L. Eriksonas and A. Mycock, 269-89. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

"Collective Memory, History Education and Historical Consciousness." In Recent Trends in Historical Thinking, edited by D. A. Yerxa, 28-34. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Review of The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past by Peter Farrugia (ed.). University of Toronto Quarterly 77(1) (2008): 197-8.

"Benchmarks of Historical Thinking: A Brief Overview." Canadians and Their Pasts Newsletter 3 (2008): 1-2.

Preface to Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the Twenty-First Century by Stéphane Lévesque. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

"'Historical Consciousness' and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History." History: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Newsletter 1(3) (2007) http://www.indiana.edu/~histsotl/blog/about-the-society/newsletter/v1n3

"Popular Film and Young People's Understanding of the History of Native American-White Relations." In Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film, edited by Alan S. Marcus, 99-120. Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishing, 2007.

"Who Needs a Canon?" In Beyond the Canon: History for the 21st Century, edited by Maria Grever and Siep Stuurman, 19-30. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.

 

Amy von Heyking, Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge

"Historical Thinking in Elementary Education: A Review of the Research." In Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada, edited by Penney Clark. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press.

"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 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.