Penney Clark
Director, THEN|HiER, University of British Columbia
E-mail: penney.clark@ubc.ca
Penney Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Her research interests include history teaching and learning and curriculum in historical and political contexts. Her publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of Education, the American Journal of Education, the McGill Journal of Education, Theory and Research in Social Education and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. She was a contributor to the History of the Book in Canada project, volumes Two and Three. She is currently conducting research on textbook production and provision in Ontario and British Columbia, 1846 to 2005, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant. She was also the 2006 recipient of the Marie Tremaine Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Other research projects include a History of the UBC Child Study Centre, 1961-1997; a case study of Canadian history textbooks and their changing portrayals of Canada’s Aboriginal people over time for the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs’ History Education and Reconciliation Project; and a study of the potential for the development of historical empathy in the CBC/Radio-Canada video series, Canada: A People’s History. She currently is a member of the Editorial Board for the American Educational Research Journal.
Dr. Clark was awarded the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize in 2006 for her instruction in both teacher education and graduate courses. She received the BC Social Studies Teachers’ Association Innovator of the Year Award in 2008. Her three co-authored Canadian history textbooks are used widely. She is also co-editor, with Roland Case, of the Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Elementary Teachers (2008) and the Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Secondary Teachers (2008).
For a list of publications and additional information, see: http://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/penney-clark
Publications, Grants, and Presentations
With Mona Gleason and Stephen Petrina. "Preschools for Science? The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960-1997." History of Education Quarterly, in press.
With Wayne Knights. "‘Gringo operations’: Nationalism and Capital in Canadian Educational Publishing, 1970-1981." Journal of Canadian Studies 45(2) (Spring 2011): 123-61.
Guest editor. British Columbia History: Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation 44(1), 2011. (theme issue on education)
Editor. New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.
"Introduction." In New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark, 1-30. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.
With Peter Seixas. "Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History." In New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, edited by Penney Clark, 282-301. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.
"Review." Leslie Howsam. Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850-1950. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 48(1) (2010): 221-24.
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.
