7. ‘To The Past’: Why We Need to Teach and Study History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: History Education, Public Memory, and Citizenship in Canada 1
5. 1. What Is Historical Consciousness? 11
6. 2. Canadian History Teaching in Canada: What’s the Big Deal? 23
7. 3. Whose Public? Whose Memory? Racisms, Grand Narratives and Canadian History 32
8. 4. History, Humanistic Education, and Participatory Democracy 50
9. 5. Remembering Our Past: An Examination of the Historical Memory of Young Québécois 70
10. 6. The Blossoming of Canadian Historical Research: Implications for Educational Policy and Content 88
11. 7. ‘To The Past’: Why We Need to Teach and Study History 103