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Students are silhouetted while standing inside a teepee painted by Anishinaabe artist Sharifah Marsden, during an event to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day hosted by the Vancouver School Board, in Vancouver, on June 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Decolonizing history and social studies curricula has a long way to go in Canada

Sara Karn, McMaster University; Kristina R. Llewellyn, McMaster University, and Penney Clark, University of British Columbia

Research from a project about thinking historically for Canada’s future finds curricula must do far more to challenge dominant narratives and value Indigenous worldviews.
Australia’s move to increase fees for some university humanities courses reflects global trends towards market-friendly education that overlook what’s needed for human flourishing. Here, the University of Sydney. (Eriksson Luo/Unsplash)

Stop telling students to study STEM instead of humanities for the post‑coronavirus world

Alan Sears, University of New Brunswick and Penney Clark, University of British Columbia

Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.

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