Features
Defining Features
- Balances diversity and uniformity: Offers an array of perspectives and a great breadth of expertise through multiple contributors; presents varied but complementary ideas using consistent terminology and common structures.
- Balances the theoretical and the practical: Illustrates the applications and implications of broad principles in specific classroom contexts by situating teaching practices and strategies within their scholarly traditions and orientations, and by using theoretical considerations to problematize everyday experiences that teachers are likely to face.
- Balances the innovative and the foundational: Adds new topics without supplanting foundational principles and areas of practice that must remain at the core of teacher preparation; augments the treatment of core ideas with the best of recent thinking and developments.
Additional Materials
- Ideas for Post-Secondary Instructors
A practical companion for those using the anthology in teacher education courses. It includes guidance on selecting and sequencing chapters, suggested teaching and assessment strategies, and ready-to-use learning activities. The guide also outlines core, distributed, and special interest chapters, supports tracking performance indicators, and offers ideas for involving teacher candidates in meaningful assessment.
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- Three Reasons Learning to Inquire is Valuable to Your Teaching Practice
An overview of why the anthology is a resource that teachers continue to come back to throughout their teaching career.
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- Edition Comparison Chart
A side-by-side summary of the fifth and fourth editions that shows how chapters have been revised, added, or reorganized into shorter chapters clustered around key themes. It highlights changes in content, structure, and emphasis.
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- Disciplinary Focus Guide
A visual overview identifying the social studies disciplines addressed in each chapter. The guide notes whether each discipline is a central focus, a topic of discussion, or reflected in examples.
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Editors
Roland Case is the co-founder, former executive director, and senior editor of The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²). He was a professor of social studies education at Simon Fraser University and prior to that an elementary school teacher. He has edited or authored over 60 published books and teaching resources.
Penney Clark is a professor of social studies education at the University of British Columbia and former director of The History Education Network. She has taught elementary and secondary social studies curriculum and pedagogy courses at three universities. She has published widely in the areas of the history of social studies and history education and the history of educational publishing in Canada.
Authors
Ilan Danjoux, lecturer, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Lindsay Gibson, assistant professor, The University of British Columbia
Jan Haskings-Winner, instructor, Queen’s University
Duane Jackson, Indigenous cultural consultant
Alicia Lapointe, anti-oppressive education educator and researcher
Michael Marker (deceased), associate professor, The University of British Columbia
James Miles, assistant professor, University of Alberta
Kamilla Milligan, diversity and equity trainer
Tom Morton, social studies teacher (retired), Vancouver School Board
John Myers, instructor (retired), University of Toronto
Peter Nelson, assistant professor, The University of British Columbia
Paul Neufeld, associate professor, Simon Fraser University
Sean Nugent, teacher, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver; adjunct professor, The University of British Columbia
Carla L. Peck, professor, University of Alberta
Ian Pettigrew, secretary-treasurer, Ontario Teachers’ Federation
E. Wayne Ross, professor, The University of British Columbia
Ruth W. Sandwell, professor emerita, University of Toronto
Alan Sears, professor emeritus, University of New Brunswick
Avner Segall, professor, Michigan State University
Stefan Stipp, principal, Surrey School District; instructor, University of the Fraser Valley
Maria Vamvalis, climate change education researcher and consultant
Paula Waatainen, professor, Vancouver Island University
Andrea Webb, associate professor, The University of British Columbia
Walt Werner, associate professor (retired), The University of British Columbia
