Music as a Gateway to Understanding Historical Practice
Popular culture serves as an easy way to capitalize on students’ everyday experience. Music can teach about the past in at least seven overlapping ways.
Category Archives: Teaching History
Secret Lives, Affective Learning
Brittany Luby reflects on Zion Schoolhouse and teaching history through theatre.
Public History: Skills and Opportunities
By Jo McCutcheon Thinking about my work as a public historian and some of the recent and on-going discussions about training in history generally and doctoral training specifically have made me think about the skills and opportunities I try to provide to both students and professional consulting researchers.[1] Mixing academic teaching with entrepreneurialism has given me the opportunity to work… Read more »
Announcement: Approaching the Past Workshop
Approaching the Past Workshop being held Nov. 29th at the Zion Schoolhouse in Toronto.
Connecting Past, Present and Future: A Website Review of Stacey Zembrycki’s “Sharing Authority With Baba”
Internet sources can present challenges in the university classroom, but they also offer many new, exciting, creative learning opportunities. Rather than barring internet sources altogether, we should be teaching our students to engage critically with a range of sources, including the many great digital projects available online. One such example is Stacey Zembrycki’s website, “Sharing Authority With Baba: A Collaborative… Read more »
Tangible History: Artifacts as Gateways to the Past
When someone talks about undertaking serious historical research what comes to mind? Perhaps you conjure up an image of a dusty archives room and leaning towers of paper. Census data, photographs, journals, correspondence, business records, and many other traditional archival materials may come to mind as potential sources. Did the phrase historical research make you think of artifacts? No? Not… Read more »
Teacher-Students and Student-Historians: Discovering Constance Margaret Austin and the Value of Experiential Learning with Spadina Museum
Discovering Constance Margaret Austin and the Value of Experiential Learning with Spadina Museum
New Paper: “Engagement and Struggle: A Response to Stuart Henderson”
By Fred Burrill, Concordia University “The monster they’ve engendered in me will return to torment its maker, from the grave, the pit, the profoundest pit. Hurl me into the next existence, the descent into hell won’t turn me. I’ll crawl back to dog his trail forever.” (George Jackson—Soledad Brother, Black Panther, movement martyr) The importance of educating students about past… Read more »
Education for Sale: The Culture Industry and the Crisis in University Education
Britain’s investment in post-secondary education was, not unlike Canada’s, a post-war phenomenon that saw university education entrenched firmly within the public sector as part of the new welfare state. Since then, we’ve seen Britain move from largely free university education after World War II to the imposition of moderate tuition fees in 1998 and then to the current tripling of that figure to 9,000£.
Avoiding Chaos: Conference and Workshop Planning
Acting as the host institution for a conference or workshops can be both a blessing and a curse. Host organizations often experience increased interaction with participants and gain publicity in their local community. Hosting a conference or workshop takes considerable effort and planning and can place strain on regular staff and use up time and monetary resources. Despite planning hurdles,… Read more »