Seixas, Peter

Professeur et Chaire de recherche du Canada, University of British Columbia

Peter Seixas est professeur émérite au Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy à l’University of British Columbia et directeur du Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness (www.cshc.ubc.ca). Il a enseigné les sciences humaines au secondaire à Vancouver pendant 15 ans et est titulaire d’un doctorat en histoire de l’University of California à Los Angeles. Il a rédigé de nombreux articles dans des revues canadiennes et internationales. Il a été rédacteur en chef de Theorizing Historical Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2004), et corédacteur en chef avec Peter Stearns et Sam Wineburg pour Knowing, Teaching and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (New York University Press, 2000). Il est membre de la Société royale du Canada (Les Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en conscience historique à l’University of British Columbia. Parmi ses nombreuses récompenses, il a reçu le William Gilbert Award de l’American Historial Association pour l’excellence de ses contributions dans le domaine de l’enseignement de l’histoire par le biais de la publication d’articles scientifiques ; il a aussi reçu le Exemplary Research Award du National Council for Social Studies et le prix Constance-Rourke de l’American Studies Association. En 2007, ses contributions à l’enseignement de l’histoire ont été reconnues par la British Columbia Social Studies Teachers' Association qui lui a remis le Innovation Award ; l’Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association lui a remis le National Leadership Award. Il était directeur du projet Repères de la pensée historique ce qui a infusé avec succès la pensée historique dans le curriculum, le perfectionnement professionnel, les manuels scolaires et les évaluations. Il a pris sa retraite de l’University of British Columbia fin juin 2016 mais continue à écrire.

Publications depuis 2007

New Directions in Assessing Historical Thinking, edited by Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas. New York and London: Routledge, 2015.

With Lindsay Gibson and Kadriye Ercikan. "A Design Process for Assessing Historical Thinking: The Case of a One-Hour Test." In New Directions in Assessing Historical Thinking, edited by Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas. New York and London: Routledge, 2015, 102-16.

With Kadriye Ercikan, Juliette Lyons-Thomas, and Lindsay Gibson. "Cognitive Validity Evidence for Validating Assessments of Historical Thinking." In New Directions in Assessing Historical Thinking, edited by Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas. New York and London: Routledge, 2015, 206-20. 

“Historical Thinking Project, 2006-2014.” Featured article, Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association 40, no. 1 (March, 2014): 31-2.

With Jill Colyer. From the Curriculum to the Classroom: More Teachers, More Students, More Thinking. A Report on the Annual Meeting of the Historical Thinking Project, January 23-25, 2014. Vancouver: CSHC, May 2014.

“History and Heritage: What’s the Difference?” Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens (Fall 2014): 12-16.

With Margaret Hoogeveen. “Prologue.” In Creating Canada: A History – 1914 to the Present, 2nd edition, 5-17. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2014.

With Graeme Webber. "Troubling Compromises: Historical Thinking in a One-Year Secondary Teacher Education Program." In Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing, edited by Ruth Sandwell and Amy von Heyking, 158-74. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

With Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, Delphin Muise, and David Northrup. Canadians and Their Pasts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

“The Book of Negroes and Teaching the Ethical Dimension of History.” Rapport: Journal of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association 35(1) (2013).

« Attention, les enfant pourraient entendre! Ou l’histoire post-moderne a-t-elle sa place a l’ecole? » Le cartable de Clio: Revue Suisse sur les didactiques de l’histoire 12 (2012): 126-40. (Translation from Knowing, Teaching and Learning History).

“Progress, Presence and Historical Consciousness: Confronting Past, Present and Future in Postmodern Time.” Paedagogica Historica 48(6) (2012): 859-72.

With Jill Colyer. “Assessment of Historical Thinking: A Report on the Annual Meeting of the Historical Thinking Project, January 18-20, 2012.” Vancouver: CSHC, May 2012.

With Tom Morton. The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts. Toronto: Nelson, 2012.

With Kadriye Ercikan. “Historical thinking in Canadian schools.” Canadian Journal of Social Research 4(1) (2011): 31-41.

With Carla Peck and Stuart Poyntz. “’But we didn’t live in those times’: Canadian Students Negotiate Past and Present in a Time of War.” Education as Change 15(1) (2011): 47-62.

With Carla Peck and Stuart Poyntz.. “‘Agency’ in Students’ Narratives of Canadian History.” In Lukas Perikleous and Denis Shemilt, eds. The Future of the Past: Why History Education Matters, pp. 253-82. Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, 2011.

With Kadriye Ercikan. “Assessment of Higher Order Thinking: The Case of Historical Thinking.” In Gregory Schraw, ed., Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, pp. 245-261. Scottsdale AZ: Information Age Publishing, 2011.

“Assessment of historical thinking.” In P. Clark, ed. New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, pp. 139-53. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011.
French version:
« Évaluation de la réflexion historique ». In Histoire, musées et éducation à la citoyenneté, edited by Jean-François Cardin, Marc-André Éthier, and Anik Meunier, 247-63. Collection cahiers de l’Institut du patrimoine de l’UQAM. Montréal: Éditions MultiMondes, 2010.

With Penney Clark. “Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History.” In P. Clark, ed. New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada, pp. 282-301. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011. (This is a revised and abbreviated version of “Murals as Monuments,” published in the American Journal of Education, 2004.)

With Kadriye Ercikan, “Towards Measure of Historical Thinking in Canadian Classrooms.” Rapport: Journal of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association 34(1) (2011): 8-10, 2011.

With Jill Colyer. “Continuing the Momentum: Historical Thinking in Provincial Curricula, Assessments and Professional Development. A Report on the Toronto Meeting, February 8-10, 2011.” Vancouver: CSHC, May 2011, 13 pp. plus appendices.

Seixas, Peter. Foreword to Tony Taylor, ed. History Wars in the Classroom. Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishing, 2011.

“Learning to Think Historically.” In Linda Connor, Brian Hull and Connie Wyatt-Anderson, eds. Shaping Canada, pp. 7-13. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011 (TEXTBOOK).

With Kadriye Ercikan. “Historical Thinking in Schools in Canada.” Education Letter (Queen’s University) (Fall-Winter 2010): 11-14.

“University-Based Research on History Didactics: A Canadian Story.” In J. Hodel & B. Ziegler (Hg.) Forschungswerkstatt empirisch 09. Beiträge zur Tagung "geschichtsdidaktik empirisch 07" (Geschichtsdidaktik heute, Band 3). Bern: hep, 2010.

"A Modest Proposal for Change in Canadian History Education.” International Review of History Education 6 (2010): 11-26. (Revised and expanded version of the non-refereed Teaching History article below).

With Kadriye Ercikan and Viviane Gosselin. “Cuestionar el pasado: los canadienses ante las polemicas historiograficas.” Ciudadania: Didactica de las Ciencias Sociales, Geografia e Historia 64 (2010): 58-66.

"A Modest Proposal for Change in Canadian History Education." Teaching History 137 (2009): 26-30.

"Pondering the Past: Six Great Tips to Get Your Students Thinking Historically." Teaching Canada's History: A Special Publication of Canada's History Society (September 2009): 16-23.

“Prologue” to Creating Canada: A History – 1914 to the Present by Jill Colyer, pp. 5-11. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2009.

With Kadriye Ercikan and Viviane Gosselin. "Canadians Confront the History Wars." Canadian Diversity/Diversité canadienne 7(1) (2009): 50-54.

"Imperial America." Review of The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors by James Laxer, and What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright. Literary Review of Canada 16(9) (2008): 23-4.  Revised and reprinted online as "America: Bad to the Bone?" The Tyee (Jan. 16, 2009) http://www.thetyee.ca/Books/2009/01/16/USHistory/

“National History and Beyond: An Introduction.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 41(6) (2009): 719-22.

"'People’s History' in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology." In Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts, edited by S. Berger, L. Eriksonas and A. Mycock, 269-89. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

"Collective Memory, History Education and Historical Consciousness." In Recent Trends in Historical Thinking, edited by D. A. Yerxa, 28-34. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Review of The River of History: Trans-national and Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past by Peter Farrugia (ed.). University of Toronto Quarterly 77(1) (2008): 197-8.

"Benchmarks of Historical Thinking: A Brief Overview." Canadians and Their Pasts Newsletter 3 (2008): 1-2.

Preface to Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the Twenty-First Century by Stéphane Lévesque. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

"'Historical Consciousness' and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History." History: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Newsletter 1(3) (2007).

"Popular Film and Young People's Understanding of the History of Native American-White Relations." In Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film, edited by Alan S. Marcus, 99-120. Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishing, 2007.

"Who Needs a Canon?" In Beyond the Canon: History for the 21st Century, edited by Maria Grever and Siep Stuurman, 19-30. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.