Women, Gender, and History Education: Perspectives from Ontario and Quebec.

Marie-Hélène Brunet is 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 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).