by Beatrix Shackleton | Nov 28, 2025 | Salon, Articles
Guardians of Democracy: The Impact of Book Bans on Social Studies Education While Alberta teachers rightly focus on their ongoing labour action, the province’s recent (albeit rescinded) attempt to remove books from school libraries points to a larger pattern that...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Nov 28, 2025 | Salon, Articles
LES DÉCRYPTEURS (The Codebreakers) heroes of the truth online. Les Décrypteurs are a team of journalists who aim to combat misinformation in order to help citizens, young and old, to distinguish what is true and what is false among the information circulating on...
by Beatrix Shackleton | Nov 28, 2025 | Salon, Articles
An Introduction to Canada’s Air War – A Chronology Paul Squires Canada and Newfoundland made a vital contribution to the Allied victory in the Second World War, leveraged by our strategic location, vast resources, industrial capacity, high education standards,...
by Beatrix Shackleton | May 30, 2025 | Salon, Articles
The Myth of Teacher Neutrality and the Necessity to Engage Kevin LopuckKevin Lopuck is a High School teacher in Selkirk, Manitoba and a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba Teaching social studies has never been an easy task. Currently, however, teaching in...
by Beatrix Shackleton | May 30, 2025 | Articles, Salon
Teaching challenging histories: Strategies for approaching controversial topics in social studies Dale MartelliPresident, BC Social Studies Teachers’ Association, and teacher A key component of social studies curriculum at any grade level is world events, both current...
by Beatrix Shackleton | May 30, 2025 | Salon, Articles
10 Common Misconceptions about Historical Thinking Dr. Lindsay Gibson Over the past fifty years, historical thinking has become a standard in the theory and practice of history education in Western Europe and North America before spreading globally. Since the...
