In episode 195, Dan and Michael chat with James Miles and Lindsay Gibson about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Rethinking presentism in history education.”

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Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

1. Miles, J., & Gibson, L. (2022). Rethinking presentism in history education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 50(4), 509-529.
2. Seixas, P. (2017). A model of historical thinking. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(6), 593–605. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2015.1101363  
3. Historical Thinking Project: https://historicalthinking.ca/
4. Truth & Reconciliation https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1450124405592/1529106060525
5. David Armitage article: https://scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/publications/defense-presentism
6. Supporters of the historicist approach to presentism: Leopold van Ranke, Herbert Butterfield, Arthur Lovejoy. 
7. Hunt, L. (2002, May 1). Against presentism. Perspectives on history: The newsmagazine of the American Historical Association. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspec tives-on-history/may-2002/against-presentism 
8. Supporters of presentism: John Dewey (1938) was a strong advocate for presentism and declared that “all history is necessarily written from the standpoint of the present, and is, in an escapable sense, the history not only of the present, but that of what is contemporaneously judged to be important in the present” (p. 235). Also Charles Beard, Carl Becker, Benedetto Croce, and RG Collingwood. 
9. Cowan, R. S. (1980?). More work for mother: The ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave. XXXX.
10. Reflexive presentism – Ed Jonker – https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA397006123&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=20416938&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=nysl_oweb

Biographies

James Miles is a visiting assistant professor of social studies education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research explores the teaching and learning of historical injustices in settler colonial contexts. He previously was a secondary school teacher in British Columbia. 

Lindsay Gibson Lindsay Gibson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on various aspects of history and social studies education including curriculum design, assessment, historical thinking, historical consciousness, teacher education, inquiry, and difficult history.