Traces of the Past: Raising the Allumettières (Matchworkers) in Sites of Collective Remembering
Conrad J. McCallum,
Lorna R. McLean
Abstract:Engaging with historical events, people and places encourages students to envision history as a dynamic process where individual, group, and national identities are reproduced. These types of educational interventions can foster recognition that history—both past events and our records about them—result from a process of authorship. The recent surge of interest amongst history educators and within recent publications of provincial curricula that focus on historical thinking concepts—historical significance, pr… Show more
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