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1. Appointment - Continuing Education
2. Honourable Mention - The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
3. Thank You
4. McGill Lecture Series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education"

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Bruce Walker as our new Director of Continuing Education. Bruce is an experienced administrator who will assume responsibility for our offerings in Continuing Education, Summer School, Distance Education, and Professional Development (outside of Leadership). He replaces Sylvia Sklar who has returned to the Centre for Educational Leadership and who will continue her Professional Development activities in Leadership in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Please join me in welcoming Bruce to our Faculty.

Dr. Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean
Information Technology and Continuing Education

The paper by Dr. Ron Morris entitled "The Mythic Horizon of the University: Problems and Possibilities for Value-Based Leadership" has received an honourable mention in the ASAC Best Paper Award category of The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. Dr. Morris' paper was praised for "providing a wake-up call for the restoration of the university as an institution of learning imbued with sound ethical values". The honourable mention was announced at the Awards Luncheon during the ASAC Conference in Winnipeg, May 26th.

Dr. Ratna Ghosh
Dean

To all my friends in the Faculty of Education:

As many of you know, I am leaving McGill University to take a position at Northwestern University in Chicago. I want to take this opportunity to thank all my friends in the Faculty of Education for making my two year post do stay at McGill so enjoyable. I leave with nothing but good memories of my time spent here.

Jeff Dodick

A frequent complaint by social commentators, historians and educators is that young people know very little about the past. And this seems to be true when students are asked to answer very focused and specific questions about Canadian history. But when the same students are asked to account, in a general way, for the historical experience of the group to which they feel they belong - let's take Quebec as an example - then their knowledge of the past is much more fluent and abundant. Their historical knowledge, however, does not seem to be influenced by the work of professional historians, or the texts and lessons of their classrooms. This lecture will address the question of whether it is possible, using the traditional structures of historical knowledge used in schools (teaching, readers, manuals, etc.), to influence and reorient their vision of the past while their collective memory exerts such a strong influence in shaping their historical consciousness.

The next lecturer in the series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education" is Jocelyn Létourneau, who holds a Canada Research Chair in the History and Political Economy of Contemporary Quebec at Laval University in Quebec City, and is Visiting Professor at Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He is the author of the award winning examination of historical consciousness in Quebec, "Passer à l'avenir: Histoire, mémoire, identité dans le Québec d'aujourd'hui" (Montréal, Boréal 2000) which will be published in english by McGill-Queen's University Press. His lecture, "Remembering Our Past: : An Examination of Young Quebeckers' Historical Memory" begins at 5:30 pm this Thursday, June 13th 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 education.mcgill.ca/events or email ruth.sandwell@mcgill.ca

Dr. Ruth Sandwell
Department of Integrated Studies in Education