EDEE 283 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Social Studies, Quebec

• School: McGill University
• Department: Elementary Education
• Course: EDEE 283
• Professor: Philip Howard

Document Summary

So we never forget the history of who"s been on this land and who can we thank/respect for the land that were on. A way towards reconciliation - a history like that shouldn"t be covered or censored, we should know everything about canada"s history of colonization and everyone should acknowledge what happened. Teaching social studies is always a political act having implications for how your students understand canada, and how they will live within it. Teachers must carefully and purposefully decide on their political stance and be able to articulate it. The overall rational for social studies education in schools is the idea that it prepares students to be citizens. In view of this purpose for the social studies in schools, the social studies educator must. At one extreme, social acceptance (social initiation), the point of citizenship education is to promote complete conformity with mainstream social norms and practices;