De-picturing John A. Macdonald: Opportunities and Challenges of Representing Canada’s Past with Graphic History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Critical Resources

This article explores the historiographical and methodological opportunities and challenges of graphic history to represent, interpret, and interrogate Canada’s past. Graphic history is a research-creation approach that combines word and picture to produce illustrated texts and comic book-style narratives. While I address important critiques about academic rigour, pedagogical value, and practical viability, I argue that graphic history has much potential to offer historians. By broadening our understanding of scholarly work, graphic histories can be accessible sources for wider audiences, critical resources for teaching and learning, and/or imaginative methods for engaging with historiographical issues. After examining the theories and practices of graphic history, I illustrate a graphic-text essay on the contested images of John A. Macdonald. Pictures of the first prime minister are well known to most Canadians in photograph, caricature, and statue, but his legacy has come under greater academic and public scrutiny, particularly regarding policies towards Indigenous peoples. I focus on Macdonald because debates over his commemoration are relevant to the ways in which historians represent and confront complicated pasts. I use related debates over statue removal and anxieties about erasure of history to explore deeper historiographic questions about representation, truth, presentism, and perspective. I argue that a graphic history approach is a medium for deconstructing, or, as I call it, de-picturing, a one-dimensional, dominant image of Macdonald on a pedestal, exhibited in bronze.

Indigenous Students in Higher Education in the United States

Education ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Indigenous Student ◽  
Student Affairs Professional ◽  
Shed Light

This article attempts to highlight literature that focuses on Indigenous students, including the various areas that work to support and honor Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and communities. Only since 2000 has there been more literature produced by Indigenous scholars that honors Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. This article attempts to focus on Indigenous-authored and Indigenous-centered literature whose goal is to shed light on how we better support Indigenous students through representation, research, teaching, and learning to the praxis of being an Indigenous student affairs professional and faculty member.

“Sacred Trust”: Rethinking Late British Decolonization in Indigenous Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-597
Author(s):  
Joel Hebert
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Pierre Trudeau ◽  
The Face ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
Bilateral Treaties

AbstractThis article considers the political activism of Canada's Indigenous peoples as a corrective to the prevailing narrative of British decolonization. For several decades, historians have described the end of empire as a series of linear political transitions from colony to nation-state, all ending in the late 1960s. But for many colonized peoples, the path to sovereignty was much less straightforward, especially in contexts where the goal of a discrete nation-state was unattainable. Canada's Indigenous peoples were one such group. In 1980, in the face of separatism in Quebec, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to renew the Canadian Confederation by bringing home the constitution, which was still retained by the British Parliament. But many Indigenous leaders feared that this final separation of powers would extinguish their historic bilateral treaties with the British crown, including the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that guaranteed Indigenous sovereignty in a trust relationship with Britain. Indigenous activists thus organized lobbying campaigns at Westminster to oppose Trudeau's act of so-called patriation. This article follows the Constitution Express, a campaign organized by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs in 1981. Maneuvering around the nuances of British political and cultural difference, activists on the Constitution Express articulated and exercised their own vision of decolonization, pursuing continued ties to Britain as their best hope for securing Indigenous sovereignty in a federal Canada.

Teaching Is Part of Legal Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Majury
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Scholarly Work

In my contribution to this discussion or the Arthurs Report twenty years later, I want to talk briefly about the teaching aspect of legal education. I want to be emphatic in my focus on teaching because I fear that teaching is increasingly diminishing as an object of our attention and as a subject of our scholarly work. I fear that, for many of us, teaching is becoming a less and less significant part of our discussions, our hirings, our preoccupations, our energy … To me, this is both short-sighted and sad, particularly for those of us who are committed to a law and society approach to legal education. If we are committed to social change, then education, in the form of teaching and learning, is critically important – that is, what we teach and how we teach, and what we model as teachers and thinkers are important instigators and promoters of change. I make this assertion of a lack of serious interest in law teaching despite the fact that there have been a number of Canadian forums on legal education recently. However, admissions and administrative matters largely overshadowed teaching as issues of primary concern and discussion in the two forums that I attended. I do not think these forums generated the kind of on-the-ground, in-our-work-places re-energization and rethinking of legal education and specifically about teaching that was perhaps hoped for.

How Long Is Its Projection?

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 444-448
Author(s):  
Sandra Davis Trowell ◽  
Anne Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Teaching And Learning Mathematics ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Important Idea ◽  
Principles And Standards

PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS (NCTM 2000) is designed around the idea of integrating content and process skills in teaching and learning mathematics. A curriculum is envisioned in which the content is taught through problem solving, communicating, and making connections. In the Grade 6–8 Standards, one key idea that connects much of the content is proportionality: “Proportionality connects many of the mathematics topics studied in grades 6–8” (NCTM 2000, p. 217). For example, in this digital age, numerous students have access to equipment for enhancing photographs, including stretching and shrinking. Proportional reasoning is an important idea in the manipulation of such objects and involves distinguishing between changes that occur in both one-dimensional, or linear (length), and two-dimensional space (area) as well as the development of the mathematics of similarity. Textbooks typically equate proportions with the cross-products rule, which states that the “product of the extremes equals the product of the means.” In other words, if a/b = c/d, then a × d = b × c.

Expansionary Jordanian budget will contain discontent

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Positive Signal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Credit Line ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Imf

Significance That comes as the country’s own parliament prepares to vote on the 2020 fiscal bill before the end of the year. Amman is currently in the last year of a 723-million-dollar IMF credit line, which required it to cut debt levels. The budget is intended to stimulate growth and stave off further protests, while simultaneously persuading the IMF to extend its credit line for another three years during upcoming talks in January. Impacts There will be closer cooperation between the government and parliament over managing the economy. Signs of unrest and public discontent over economic reforms will ease, notably if a tax evasion crackdown features on social media. Razzaz will survive another year as prime minister, having already served 18 months, sending a positive signal to the IMF and investors. King Abdullah and Queen Rania will come under less public scrutiny and distance themselves further from day-to-day politics.

scholarly journals Finding the Right Article Type for Your Scholarly Work in Pharmacy Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kristin Janke
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
The Right ◽  
Best Fit ◽  
Educational Scholarship

Abstract Over the last eight years, a number of new article types have been made available to support scholarship in pharmacy education.  This commentary aims to describe the evolution of the article types and a process for matching the phase of educational scholarship with available types.  Success in publishing requires knowledge of the journals publishing education-related manuscripts, as well as the article types and their specifications.  In order to determine the best fit for your manuscript, authors are encouraged to review each journal’s guidelines for the various article types. Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC Disclosures: The author is Executive Associate Editor for Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning and Editor for Innovations in Pharmacy with responsibility for the Education Section. Acknowledgements: The author thanks the Education Team of Innovations in Pharmacy including, Andrea Franks, Pharm.D., Katherine Kelley, Ph.D., Lara Kerwin, Pharm.D. , Claire Kolar, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and Michael Nelson, Ph.D., for their comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. Type: Commentary  

scholarly journals Contested Histories of Racialization and the Legacies of Sir John A Macdonald

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leela Viswanathan ◽  
Scott L. Morgensen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Race And Racialization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Pacific Railway ◽  
Guided Tours

The year 2015 marked the bicentenary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth and sparked renewed interest in his legacies and the contested histories of race and racialization in Canada. One version of a monolithic history of Canada venerates Sir John A. Macdonald for his role as Canada’s first Prime Minister, a paternal figure of Confederation, and a nation builder who implemented projects of infrastructure and industrial development (i.e., Canadian Pacific Railway) and systems of land tenure and ownership. This dominating story of Macdonald’s legacies reflects a historical canon of biographies, dramatic plays, musicals, guided tours and monuments such that Macdonald’s history is conflated with a founding history of Canada. By contrast, diverse and different stories about human erasure, physical and cultural displacement, and assimilation—notably, of Black, Asian, and Indigenous peoples—are made marginal by the dominating discourse of so-called Canadian national progress. The essays presented in this issue of the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) (Volume 3, Number 1) contest dominant interpretations of the legacies of Sir John A. Macdonald by offering theoretical, performative, and experiential analyses of Canadian history, race, colonialism, and Indigenous cultural resurgence.

scholarly journals Book Review: Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lisa Euster
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Other Information

The authors emphasize early what Native American Almanac is not: an almanac, an encyclopedia, nor a scholarly work, among other things. It is described as a well-researched “historical overview of Native communities in what is now the United States” (ix). Despite the title, it is heavily focused on the post-contact period. The main arrangement is by geographical region, with an overview chapter and one discussing urban settings. Each chapter is introduced by a regional history, followed by discussion of tribes, their histories, and other information.

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