CANADIAN SOCIAL STUDIES
VOLUME 40 NUMBER 1, Summer 2006
www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css
Special Issue: History Alive! Old Sources, New Technologies
Introduction to the Special Edition of Canadian Social
Studies :
History Alive! Old Sources, New Technologies.
Presented by The Teaching of History Research
Group of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Chair: Dr Rosa Bruno-Joffre (Dean of the Faculty
of Education)
Secretary: John Fielding (Adjunct Professor of
History and World Studies Curriculum, retired 2003)
All the papers for this
special edition of Canadian Social Studies were produced by educators
who attended The Teaching of History Research Groups sponsored Symposium
of November 25th 2005. The subject of our symposium was History Alive!
Old Sources, New Technologies.
The day began with an
inspirational address by Dr. Stéphane Lévesque who is
Assistant Professor of History Education in the J.G. Althouse Faculty
of Education at the University of Western Ontario. His paper is included
here.
We also appreciate the time and energy taken by John Myers Curriculum
Instructor in the Teacher Education Program at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and Dr. Sharon
Cook Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education, University
of Ottawa who not only presented workshops but also prepared papers
for this special edition.
Finally and not least
important four of the papers included here were written by very experienced
and respected classroom teachers: Carol White, Joe Stafford, Gord
Sly and Mike Clare. They drew on their vast experience and their reflective,
thoughtful natures to produce essays that contain excellent practical
activities and good ideas for practitioners.
For more information
please go to our website at:
http://educ.queensu.ca/~tohrgrp/index.shtml