Ironically perhaps, it may be the move toward reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and settler Canadians that revives the focus of the Crown in Canadian schooling.
- Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick
Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
Our brains use a function similar to a search engine’s autocomplete feature, but sometimes we get it wrong.
John McCain did something during the 2008 U.S. presidential election that would seem very out of place today: he made himself vulnerable by speaking up about the character of opponent Barack Obama.
In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
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