New Graduate Student blog entry: Entering The Jagged Landscape of History: Can We Teach Our Students to Apply Historical Thinking Skills? Congratuations to University of Ottawa PhD student Paul McGuire on the publication of his contribution to the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future Graduate Student blog series, published in collaboration with our partner, Active History!

Critical Conversations with Usha James The Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future (THFCF) Graduate Student Committee would like to invite all graduate students associated with the THFCF project to join us on November 17th at 1 pm EST for Critical Conversations with Usha James. Usha will join us for a conversation about equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization and help us consider how … Read more “Critical Conversations with Usha James”

Dr. Carla Peck receives the Alberta Teachers’ Association Public Education Award Congratulations to Dr. Carla Peck on being awarded the Alberta Teachers’ Association 2022 Public Education Award! Read more here.

New blog series: Who Cares about Thinking Historically? Congratulations to Thinking Historically Graduate Student Committee Co-Chairs Becca Evans and Ian Alexander on the publication of the first entry in a new blog series published by our partner, Active History! In this post, Becca and Ian introduce the series. Stay tuned for more from other graduate … Read more “New blog series: Who Cares about Thinking Historically?”

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Georg Marschnig, University of Graz, for three stimulating presentations based on his research on history education in the Austrian context. More information and registration links are provided below. Pre-registration is required.

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My proposal involves an on-site visit in Fall 2022 with Dr. Lindsay Gibson in the Faculty of Education, UBC. Dr. Gibson is an ideal faculty sponsor, due to his expertise in historical thinking, experience designing lessons and workshops, and expressed interest in historical empathy. My teaching and research experience has been situated in Ontario, so … Read more “Visiting Doctoral Student Award: Sara Karn, Queen’s University”

10th Annual Dr. Ottilia Chareka Memorial Lecture in Education & Social Justice Symposium: Indigenous Knowledges and History Education Wednesday, March 2, 2022 7:00pm – 8:30pm Atlantic Standard Time / 12:00pm – 1:30pm New Zealand DST (March 3) Co-sponsored by the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Education, the UNB Mi’kmaq Wolastoqey Centre, and Thinking Historically … Read more “10th Annual Dr. Ottilia Chareka Memorial Lecture in Education & Social Justice”

The Absurd UCP Curriculum Dr. Carla Peck analyzes the United Conservative Party’s approach to curriculum development in Alberta. Read the article here.

We would like to welcome Thinking Historically first visiting doctoral student, Laurie Pageau, who arrived in Edmonton last night (November 16th) just in time for Winter! Laurie is a PhD candidate at the Laval University (Québec) under the supervision of Prof. Jean- François Cardin (U.Laval) and Prof. Catherine Duquette (UQAC). Her doctoral research aims at … Read more “TH First Visiting Doctoral Student”

THFCF team member Dr. Lindsay Gibson is interviewed by CBC Kelowna’s Chris Walker about the vote by the Regional District of the East Kootenays to rename Mount Pétain. The story was featured on CBC Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. Listen Here

September Newsletter is HERE!

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Ten Schools the VSB Should Aim to Rename Read Dr. Lindsay Gibson’s and PhD Candidate Mallory Davies’ Tyee article, Ten Schools the VSB Should Aim to Rename” here.

As we ramp up for data collection after a year or more of delays due to the pandemic, and in particular the teacher and student surveys, we are looking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow for a two-year term. Please see the details Here and please spread far and wide to your networks!