Students' Desires for Connected, Complex National Histories: Developing a New "We" — A View From Canada

• In Event: 25.086 - Sheraton Roundtable Session One - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 25.086-5 - Change

Abstract

In an increasingly confusing and volatile “post-truth” world, how can history education provide a sense of connection amongst young people and develop a “we” that brings together more than it divides? In this paper, the voices of students from a 2011 research intervention will be augmented with the contemporary voices of student-participants from that research to demonstrate that young people want a history education that is connected and complex as the world they see around them. As both a return to the research and a new set of conversations, this paper will model the ways educational research can engage with youth, classroom practice, and community for developing more nuanced conversations about how history can be taught in the 21st century.

Author

• Samantha Cutrara, Independent Scholar