Conrad / Ercikan / Friesen Canadians and Their Pasts

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6764-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conrad, Margaret

Ercikan, Kadriye

Friesen, Gerald

Létourneau, Jocelyn

Muise, D.A.

Northrup, David

Seixas, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF TABLESLIST OF FIGURESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION Canadians and their PastsCHAPTER 1 History in PublicCHAPTER 2 Everybody’s Doing ItCHAPTER 3 The Problem of TrustCHAPTER 4 Family History in a Globalizing WorldCHAPTER 5 Collective Remembering in Three Canadian CommunitiesCHAPTER 6 Places and PastsCHAPTER 7 Immigrants and Historical MemoryCHAPTER 8 The Presence of the Past in International PerspectiveCONCLUSION Making HistoryAPPENDIX 1 QuestionnaireAPPENDIX 2 How We Did the SurveyContributors

Über Autor(innen)

ConradMargaret:

Margaret Conrad is professor emerita in the History Department at University of New Brunswick.ErcikanKadriye:

Kadriye Ercikan is a professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia.

FriesenGerald:

Gerald Friesen is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba.

LétourneauJocelyn:

Jocelyn Létourneau is Canada Research Chair in the History and Political Economy of Contemporary Quebec and a professor in the Department of History at l’Université Laval.

MuiseD.A.:

Delphin A. Muise is an emeritus professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.NorthrupDavid:

David Northrup is associate director of the Institute for Social Research at York University.

SeixasPeter:

Peter Seixas is Canada Research Chair in Historical Consciousness and a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia.