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McGill Lecture Series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education"
In the past decade, many of the calls for increased history in schools have arisen from concerns about Canadian identity and Canadian unity. They ask the school history classroom to play a key role in shaping national collective memory. These campaigns often underplay difficult challenges: How can teachers deal with complex historical issues of identity, difference, and community? Can they effectively bridge the divide that so often exists between families’ personal or ethnic histories, and the ‘official’ versions of textbook history? How should they think about film and new media in shaping young people's historical understanding? This lecture reviews some key recent research to define the field of "historical consciousness" in relation to those of history, historiography, and collective memory. It concludes that there is an urgent need to revise and rethink school history.
The next lecturer in the series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education" is Peter Seixas, Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness at the University of British Columbia. After teaching in Vancouver secondary schools for 15 years and earning a Ph.D. in history, he embarked upon a program of research on young people’s historical understanding. His lecture begins at 5:30 pm this Thursday, April 25th in the Jack Cram Auditorium of the Faculty of Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish St. Everyone is welcome.
For further information about this lecture, and others in the series, please see www.education.mcgill.ca/events or email ruth.sandwell@mcgill.ca
Dr. Ruth Sandwell
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
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Media Services - Spring/Summer Hours
Beginning Monday, April 22nd, Media Services will be open Monday to Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Anyone requiring access to equipment outside of these hours, please contact Media Services at 398-6950.
Regular sessional hours will resume at the start of the Fall semester, September 4th, 2002.
Jim Harris
Media Services Manager
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