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.
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
Linda Farr Darling, associate professor emerita, University of British Columbia
Ilan Danjoux, lecturer, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Lindsay Gibson, assistant professor, University of British Columbia
Garfield Gini-Newman, associate professor, teaching stream, OISE/University of Toronto
Duane Jackson, Indigenous cultural consultant
Usha James, executive director, The Critical Thinking Consortium
Shannon Moore, assistant professor, University of Manitoba
John Myers, instructor (retired), OISE/University of Toronto
Carla Peck, professor, University of Alberta
Ian Pettigrew, director, Ontario Teachers’ Federation
Alan Sears, professor emeritus, University of New Brunswick
Stefan Stipp, vice-principal, Surrey School District
Tracey Tinley, teacher, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Maria Vamvalis, doctoral candidate, OISE/University of Toronto
Andrea Webb, associate professor of teaching, University of British Columbia
Walt Werner, associate professor emeritus, University of British Columbia
Warren Woytuk, director, The Critical Thinking Consortium