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Teaching second-order concepts in Canadian history: The importance of historical significance.
No full textThis article addresses the second-order concept of historical significance and attempts to answer the question of what criteria are used to make decisions about it in history and school history. Specifically, it explores the way Francophone and Anglophone students ascribe significance to selected historical events in Canada and discusses the implications of this study for history students and educators. The necessity of (re)considering how officials make decisions about historical significance in the school system is also examined
The Great Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian History: Using a web-based archives to teach history.
No full textOver the past few years, there has been a growing trend in the use of primary documents, those original historical documents used by historians, to teach history in high school and even elementary classrooms. This article uses the author\u27s experience of designing a web-based history education project, The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project (www.canadianmysteries.ca) to explore some of the promise and problems of using primary documents to teach history. The article suggests that this approach not only makes history more interesting to students, but it does so by drawing students into the processes of critical and imaginative thinking needed to \u27do\u27 history
Engaging Students in Learning History.
No full textThere are two distinct sections to this article. In the first part, the author\u27s relates, in a personal way, his conviction that the teaching of history is about the engagement and development of the historical imagination. In the second part Fielding presents not only many strategies for teaching history but also his analysis of these various activities in terms of how effectively they engage students\u27 historical imagination
Michael Adams. 2003. Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values.
No full textHow Can Social Studies Teachers Best Use The Internet With Young Learners?
No full textThe most effective integration of technology for enhancing learning in social studies has been found to engage students in inquiry centered around authentic, complex, real world problems in order to develop higher order thinking and problem solving skills. These technology enhanced learning environments allow for student control over the learning activities, provide opportunities for students to think critically and analytically about information, provide a variety of information resources and tools for constructing knowledge to solve these problems, and engage students in representing and creatively applying the resultant new knowledge. While such learning experiences have been found to be very successful with older students, young children need to begin building an understanding of how to navigate in these student controlled learning environments. A good place to begin developing that understanding with primary children is to use a more structured online learning approach such as a WebQuest
Identity and the Forthcoming Alberta Social Studies Curriculum: A Postcolonial Reading
No full textBeginning in the early 20th century, the role of citizenship as an organizing concept has been significant in the teaching of social studies. The central aim of the social studies was the production of good citizens, and the main focus of the Alberta social studies curriculum has ultimately become developing responsible citizenship. While citizenship has always been the raison d\u27tre of social studies, identity has also played an important role in the formation of young citizens. The author\u27s aim in this article is to explore how and in what ways multiple perspectives can be read in the context of the Alberta Junior High social studies curriculum. After examining the evolving concepts of citizenship and identity from the 1970s to the 1990s, she undertakes a postcolonial reading of the forthcoming Alberta social studies curriculum
