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Bringing Children and Youth into Canadian History

The Difference Kids Make

by (author) Mona Gleason & Tamara Myers

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2016
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780199024483
    Publish Date
    Nov 2016
    List Price
    $124.99

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Description

Do children and youth have their own history? How is it different from traditional accounts? What difference do children make to our understanding of contemporary Canada? This collection of distinguished and original articles are divided into eleven thematic chapters and explores how topics such as politics and gender, residential schools, and global citizenship have informed being young in Canada.

Bringing Children and Youth into Canadian History provides a new, comprehensive, current, and pedagogical approach to the history of children and youth in Canada.

About the authors

Mona Gleason, PhD, is an associate professor and the co-ordinator of the Society, Culture, and Politics in Education Program in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings an historical perspective to the study of education, children, and youth in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Tamara Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.

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Editorial Reviews

"The range and scope of this book is tremendous. The sections are well thought out, and each chapter includes a context-setting introduction, various additional pieces of material/documentary history, and general questions for discussion. This makes a great package for undergraduate teaching. Furthermore, the scholarship is current and the categories are very nicely selected." --Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University

"Altogether, an excellent book that I look forward to using in my courses." --Sarah Glassford, University of New Brunswick