Stéphane Lévesque

Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Stéphane Lévesque is associate professor of history education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. His research focuses on students’ historical thinking, Canadian history, citizenship education, and new media and technology in education.  Author of Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press 2008), Dr. Lévesque has also published several book chapters and numerous articles in professional and scholarly journals such as the International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching, and Research; Journal of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers' Association; Canadian and International Education; Canadian Social Studies; and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. Recent research projects include “The Virtual Historian: Digital History in the Canadian Classroom” (www.virtualhistorian.ca) funded by the Western Innovation Fund and the Faculty of Education Media and Information Services at the University of Western Ontario; “Historical Literacy and Digital Technology” funded by the Canadian Council on Learning; and “Canadian and US Students’ Historical Learning with Technology,” a SSHRC funded comparative study. He is past president of the Citizenship Education Research Network and co-chair of the Teaching History interest group of the American Educational Research Association. In his spare time, Stéphane is a passionate amateur hockey coach for his son William’s team.