Book launch - Women, Gender, and History Education: Perspectives from Ontario and Quebec
Mar 4, 2025 — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Join us on March 4 from 5 to 7 PM for the launch of the new book Women, Gender, and History Education: Perspectives from Ontario and Quebec, edited by professors Marie-Hélène Brunet (University of Ottawa), Kristina R. Llewellyn (University of Waterloo), and Rose Fine-Meyer (OISE-University of Toronto).
Description
This is the first collective work dealing specifically with women, gender and history teaching in Canada and internationally. We hope this book will mark the beginning of an important and long-awaited conversation about the place of women and gender in our historical representations and in our strategies and methods for teaching and learning history.
The aim of the volume is threefold: to offer a historical analysis of women and gender in K-12 teaching and learning of history; to provide an examination of women and gender in relation to contemporary pedagogy, curriculum, and resources in K-12 history education and teacher education; and, to explore the future of history education when informed by intersectional feminism and gender theory.
Presenters
Marie-Hélène Brunet
Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Marie-Hélène Brunet is an associate professor in social science and history education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa since August 2018. Her doctoral thesis focused on the understanding of women’s history by Quebec high school students. She also holds a master’s degree in history. Her research interests relate primarily to history teaching, citizenship education, teacher education, and both history of education and women’s history, mainly focusing on the concept of historical agency and its potential in the classroom. In 2024, she received the University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Education Prize. She is co-investigator for the SSHRC funded pancanadian partnership Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future.
Rose Fine-Meyer
Professor, OISE, University of Toronto
Rose Fine-Meyer is a senior lecturer in the Master of Teaching (MT) program at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research and publications explore relationships between provincially sanctioned curricula, textbook narratives, public history, place-based learning, and women’s history. She is the recipient of several awards, including The Governor General’s award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History (2007) and The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). In terms of her community work, she is President of Ontario Heritage Fairs Association (OHFA).
Tifanie Valade
Graduate student, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
Tifanie Valade holds a BA in Women’s Studies and a Master’s degree in Media Studies from Concordia University and is currently a graduate student and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. Her research and teaching interests include gender, equity and social justice issues in educational policy and curriculum design in Quebec and Canada. In addition, she enjoys examining the relationship between gender, play, mass media and popular cultural narratives, particularly in early childhood education and care (ECEC) contexts.