When History Becomes a Battlefield. An Analysis of History Exams in Quebec (1970-2012)
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When History Becomes a Battlefield. An Analysis of History Exams in Quebec (1970-2012)
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The author’s aim is to contribute to the knowledge on history teaching in Quebec by analyzing Secondary 4 final examination copies for the course History of Quebec and Canada (general education sector), later renamed History and Citizenship Education, and developed by the Ministère de l’éducation [du loisir et du sport] du Québec from 1970 to 2012. He points out that his analysis is instructive in more ways than one. Among other things, it allows the reader not only to follow the long-term evolution of the Ministry’s expectations with regards to the teaching of Quebec history, but also to follow closely the Ministry’s ideological biases, methodological perspectives, and epistemological choices. The author concludes that reviewing more than forty years of annual examinations is to get closer to the tensions that drives the relationship between the political, historiographical and educational fields when dealing with facts and identities, history and memory.
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Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens
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1-15
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Spring 2014
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en
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This article is based on a summary of the author’s “Enseignement, mémoire, histoire: Les examens d’histoire de 4e secondaire du secteur de la formation générale au Québec (1970-2012).“ Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation. Vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring/printemps 2013): 31-53. https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/4308/4405 |
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Warren, Jean-Philippe. “When History Becomes a Battlefield. An Analysis of History Exams in Quebec (1970-2012).” Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens (Spring 2014): 1–15. https://acs-metropolis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Yb2M8TX462FvVRumvnWn.pdf.
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