Rethinking Historical Consciousness as Critical Heritage and Unsettling Remembrance: Countermemorializing Canada's Sesquicentennial and #Colonialism150

• In Event: Transnational and Decolonizing Perspectives on Curricular Memory and Vision

Abstract

The emerging field of Critical Heritage Studies (CHS) has much to offer decolonial curriculum studies and critical approaches to history education and vice versa. Mobilizing the critiques of settler colonial affective formations and futurities opened by Indigenous scholars and artists, I consider the particular and implicated projects of CHS and history education (with a focus on pedagogies of public history and public memory). This frames a narrative practitioner study of a preservice history methods course focused on the production of counter histories and counter memorials. This research makes a timely contribution to the national debate occasioned by Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations in which dissonant publics are unsettling and reconfiguring the representational and remembrance practices imagining Canada 1867, 2017, and 2167.

Author

• Lisa K. Taylor, Bishop's University