Visiting Doctoral Student Program Reports

2015

David Bussell, OISE/University of Toronto, with Dr. Stéphane Lévesque, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Using the Virtual Historian to Teach Historical Thinking

Raphaël Gani, University of Ottawa, with Dr. Kent den Heyer, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Reconsidering Canadians' Ignorance of History

2014

Jane Griffith, York University, with Dr. Dwayne Donald, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Linguicide and the School Newspapers of Nineteenth-Century Residential School

Scott Pollock, OISE/UT, with Dr. Peter Seixas and Dr. Penney Clark, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
The Growing Interest in Historical Thinking within Canada

2013

Danielle Cooper, York University, with Dr. Elise Chenier, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
Teaching the LGBT Past Through Oral Testimony and Archives

Kate Ireland, University of New Brunswick, with Dr. Amy von Heyking, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge
Early Elementary Students’ Historical Thinking

David Scott, University of Calgary, with Dr. Jocelyn Létourneau, Département d'histoire, Université Laval
How Canadians Interact with the Past and Influences on Identity Formation

2012

Vincent Boutonnet, Université de Montréal, with Dr. Penney Clark, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
The Uses and Functions of Textbooks in Secondary History Classes

Sean Carleton, Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies, Trent University, with Dr. Chris Minns, Economic History Department, London School of Economics.
Education on the Edge of Empire: Examining the Economics of British Columbia’s Colonial Schooling in the Metropole

Lindsay Gibson, University of British Columbia, with Dr. Per Eliasson, Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University.
Historical Thinking in Schools in Sweden and Canada

Eric Poitras, McGill University, with Dr. Kevin Kee, Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University.
Augmented Reality Applications for the MetaHistoReasoning Tool

2011

Marie-Hélène Brunet, Université de Montréal, with Dr. Penney Clark, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
Examining Ways in which Secondary School Students in Québec Interpret Struggles for Gender Equality, as They are Represented in Québec History Textbooks

Samantha Cutrara, York University, with Dr. Carla Peck, Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta
The Relationship between Students’ Ethnic Identities and Their Construction of Narratives of Canadian History

Kate Zankowicz, OISE/University of Toronto, with Dr. Brenda Trofanenko, School of Education, Acadia University
The History of Tactile Education in Toronto Museums and Exhibitions
 

2010

Alexandre Lanoix, Université de Montréal, with Dr. Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia
The Relationship between History Education and the Development of National Identity: The Debate in Québec

Cynthia Wallace-Casey, University of New Brunswick, with Dr. Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia
What Does It Mean to Think Historically?
 

2009

Catherine Duquette, Université Laval, with Dr. Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia
Great Debates: How Controversy Can Turn Students on to History

Meagan Gough, University of Saskatchewan, with Dr. Robert Anderson, University of the Fraser Valley
Gaining Cross Disciplinary Experience in the Related Fields of Indigenous History, Anthropology, and Oral History 

Ana Laura Pauchulo, University of Toronto/OISE, with Dr. Kent den Heyer, University of Alberta
Pedagogical Implications of Human Rights Groups’ Attempts to Establish a Democratic Society through Different Perspectives of the Argentina 1976-1983 Dictatorship