The Professional Development Program
The War and the Canadian Experience teachers' professional development tours introduce educators to the history of Canada in the two world wars and the potential for using the subject as a vehicle to foster critical thinking skills and historical consciousness in today's youth. Nearly all teacher participants have reported that the program invigorated their teaching, engaging them with new ideas and methods that enhance relationships between school and community.
The 2017 France and Flanders study tour differed from previous years' tours in that all aspects of the tour involved inquiry and discovery. To foster tour participants' historical thinking about Canada's experiences in the First World War and Second World War, tour directors Dr. Cindy Brown, Mr. Blake Seward, and Dr. Lee Windsor engaged participants in interrogations of sites, Tactical Exercises Without Troops (TEWTS), small-group projects, and large-group discussions.
The War and the Canadian Experience teachers' professional development tours introduce educators to the history of Canada in the two world wars and the potential for using the subject as a vehicle to foster critical thinking skills and historical consciousness in today's youth. Nearly all teacher participants have reported that the program invigorated their teaching, engaging them with new ideas and methods that enhance relationships between school and community.
The 2017 France and Flanders study tour differed from previous years' tours in that all aspects of the tour involved inquiry and discovery. To foster tour participants' historical thinking about Canada's experiences in the First World War and Second World War, tour directors Dr. Cindy Brown, Mr. Blake Seward, and Dr. Lee Windsor engaged participants in interrogations of sites, Tactical Exercises Without Troops (TEWTS), small-group projects, and large-group discussions.
The Gregg Centre
One of the University of New Brunswick's distinguished research centres, The Milton F. Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society is devoted to excellence in the study of war as a complex social phenomenon, with the goal of increasing understanding of the cause, course, and consequence of armed conflict.
One of the University of New Brunswick's distinguished research centres, The Milton F. Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society is devoted to excellence in the study of war as a complex social phenomenon, with the goal of increasing understanding of the cause, course, and consequence of armed conflict.
Historical Thinking Concepts
The teachers' professional development program builds on the approach and concepts outlined in The Historical Thinking Project. Soldiers' military service files form the basis for the evidence-based research approach to crafting biographies, which we use as historical entry points into the greater picture of the war, as well as pedagogical entry points into teaching using primary sources in the classroom. Art, artifacts, literature and poetry, monuments, and memorials also serve as sources in our site-based learning experiences on the tour.
The teachers' professional development program builds on the approach and concepts outlined in The Historical Thinking Project. Soldiers' military service files form the basis for the evidence-based research approach to crafting biographies, which we use as historical entry points into the greater picture of the war, as well as pedagogical entry points into teaching using primary sources in the classroom. Art, artifacts, literature and poetry, monuments, and memorials also serve as sources in our site-based learning experiences on the tour.
The Historical Thinking Project (www.historicalthinking.ca)
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The Historical Thinking Project (www.historicalthinking.ca)
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