Meaningful Learning with Dr. Samantha Cutrara
by Samantha Cutrara
History Education Strategist Dr. Samantha Cutrara's "Pandemic Pedagogy" series talking with with historians, history teachers, and others in the heritage field about teaching history during and after COVID-19. Also find academic conference presentations from 2016-2020.For more information visit www.SamanthaCutrara.com
Episodes
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In conversation with AgentNDN & Elysse Deveaux {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 42} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with AgentNDN and Elysse Deveaux about decolonization, memes, and semiotics. What are the tools can use to interrupt colonialism and colonial structures? More about AgentNDN: Agent NDN is a Listuguj Mi'gmaw PhD...
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In conversation with Georgina Riel {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 41} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with Georgina Riel/Waabishki Mukwa Kwe, an Ojibway educational consultant and artist, about how can get caught in language and to reaffirm colonial ideas of history, the past, and people in ways we didn't realize. In...
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Source Saturday: Black Lives Matter at Museum London
In this Source Saturday conversation I speak with Amber Lloydlangston (Curator of Regional History), Olivia Musico (community collector), and Ghaida Hamdun (co-founder of Black Lives Matter London) about Museum London's Black Lives Matter exhibit. The Black Lives Matter wall exhibit is a display…
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In conversation with Dontavius Williams {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 40} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history in this moment? Chronicles of Adam creator Dontavius Williams talks about what it means to teach history using tools that empower and invite inclusivity. What does it mean to put students in the driver's seat and listen to the stories they need to navigate - and be seen in…
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Source Saturday: Dr. Sarah Glassford and Women in the Red Cross during World War Two
In this video, Dr. Glassford talks about a letter sent home from London in 1943 to demonstrate how prominent emotional labour and creating networks of home was for many women in the Red Cross. We talk about gender, and gendered expectations of care and service during the war, and how women’s...
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Source Saturday: Jennifer Shaw and Jewish Canadian Women during World War Two
In this video, Jennifer talks about how she used oral histories to refute the dominant historiographical notion that Jews did not participate in homefront war activities. In fact, Jewish women’s participation in home front activities carried a much different meaning and weight than it did for…
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Source Saturday: Dr. Amy Shaw and “Making the Best of It: Canadian Women during World War Two"
Dr. Amy Shaw discusses her co-edited collection on women and girls in Canada and Newfoundland during WW2. *Dr. Shaw underscores that by listening to the women themselves – the archival sources and oral histories that are available – we can complicate the ways we understand wartime for women in...
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Source Saturday: Grandpa's WW2 Letters with Dr. Matt Luckett
In this video I speak with Dr. Matt Luckett about the digitization project of his grandparents' letters during World War Two. Dr. Luckett's grandfather, Elmer Kurtz Luckett, was a steam engineer in the United States Navy who lived though the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In our conversation, we talk...
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Source Saturday: The Canadian Letters and Images Project with Dr. Steven Davies
The Canadian Letters and Images Project is a digitized collection of letters from military conflicts that involved Canadians. In this video, I speak to Dr. Stephen Davies the director of the Project about two letters from this collection. See the Mayse's collection here:...
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Source Saturday: International News Agencies and the 2000 US election with Prof Michael Palmer
What is happening behind the scenes in the news media during the contentious US election? How can historians help us understand this moment? In this video, I speak to journalism historian Professor Emeritus Michael Palmer from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France about the 2000 election....
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Source Saturday: 1930s Sounds of Séances with Dr. Kyle Falcon
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? Dr. Kyle Falcon introduces us to audio recording of séances from the 1930s. In our conversation, we talk about the intersection between technology and gender, and the ways spiritualism was a prominent belief in…
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Source Saturday: Research and Ghost Walks with Matthew Komus (Winnipeg Ghost Walks)
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? So often we hear standard ghost stories but rarely have we heard about the stories BEHIND the ghost stories. Historian and Winnipeg Ghost Walk founder Matthew Komus talks about his approach to research and...
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Source Saturday: Dark Tourism with Kat MacDonald
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? Kat MacDonald brings her interest and expertise in dark tourism to talk about bringing in spirits to our history education may humanize the past even more for students. We focus on Kingston Penitentiary but…
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Spooky Source Saturday: Puritans' burial practices with Robyn Lacy
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your history teaching? Historical archaeologist Robyn Lacy discusses burial practices of puritans such as Samuel Sewall of Boston, by using diaries to understand more about the role of death and dying in puritans' worldview. Check out the…
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Source Saturday: Séance photographs with Brian Hubner from The Uni. of Manitoba Archives
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections has a collection on paranormal research. In this conversation, I talk to archivist Brian Hubner about the Hamilton Family fonds in this collection, which...
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Source Saturday: Canadian Cemetery History with Dr. Adam Montgomery
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? Dr. Adam Montgomery (Canadian Cemetary History) shows how a gravestone can lead to a paper trail of research where we can learn more about life and death in the 19th century. Connect with him on social media:...
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Mondays are Meaningful! Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'
Mondays are meaningful and my new book is OUT! Get your copy of Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' today. In this Monday reflection video I announce the teachers' book club guide and share how excited I am about this book being out in the world! Are you...
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Source Saturday: "Denison Avenue" graphic novella with Christina Wong and Daniel Innes
Co-creators of the forthcoming "Denison Ave" graphic novella (and the current Instagram posts to promote this work), Christina Wong & Daniel Innes, talk about their process of capturing loss, place, and history by artistically translating experience into image and words. See Denison Avenue on...
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Source Saturday: "Bix" with Scott Chantler
Eisner-nominated cartoonist Scott Chantler talks about his new book Bix, which follows the life of 1920s jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke. Scott and I talk about the movement and characterization of the story and illustration, and the ways he has been able to capture an important life in the history…
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Source Saturday: "Group of 7" comic book series with Chris Sanagan and Jason Lapidus
Co-creators of the "Group of 7" comic book series, Chris Sanagan and Jason Lapidus, talk about the combination of history and imagination that defines the Group of 7 series and the ways we can all lean into the past more by exploring its imaginative possibilities. Group of 7 is a speculative…
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Source Saturday: "Future Bear" & "Gus Henderson" with Dr. Julian Chambliss
Dr. Julian Chambliss and I talk about the speculative possibilities of art in thinking about climate change and injustice. We discuss his work on "Future Bear" with artist and professor Rachel Simmons and also the Gus Henderson comic strip featuring the life of editor of the Winter Park Advocate....
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Source Saturday: "Christie Pits" with Jamie Michaels
How do we teach about anti-Semitism in Canada? Jamie Michaels' graphic novel "Christie Pits" tells a fictionalized story about the real anti-Semitic race riot in Toronto in 1933 - the largest race riot in Canada's history. In our conversation, Jamie talks about the ways he worked with artist Doug...
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Source Saturday: "Hanging of Angelique" with Dr. Walter Greason
Professor Dr. Walter Greason is thinking of turning Dr. Afua Cooper's book 'The Hanging of Angelique' into a graphic novel. In our conversation, we talk about this work as well as Dr. Greason's other work combining history, economics, and graphics together and discuss the transformative power of...
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Pandemic Pedagogy - In conversation with Dr. Chris Rutty - Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Medical historian Dr. Chris Rutty talks about how understanding medical history can help us make sense of our current pandemic. How do we understand similarities and differences? How we make sense of the records and experiences we're creating? Chris and I...
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Audio sneak peek: Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'
Enjoy this reading from the introduction of Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' by Dr. Samantha Cutrara. We are all our history. Yet in Canadian classrooms, students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. Despite...
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In conversation with Rob Shapiro {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 39} Imagining a New 'We'
Join me and YA author Rob Shapiro as we talk about his new fantasy novel The Book of Sam and make the connections between fantasy writing and the teaching of history. We also talk about Blair Witch Project, Paul Bunyan, and the Spice Girls (of course). Connect with Rob on Twitter at...
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Source Saturday: Canadian Hip hop - "Nothin' At All" (1991) by Maestro Fresh Wes with Dr. Francesca D’Amico-Cuthbert
Dr. Francesca D'Amico-Cuthbert introduces the primary (and secondary) source ""Nothin' At All," a hip hop track by Maestro Fresh Wes released on his 1991 album, and discusses how rap provides a counternarrative to mainstream history that students can learn from and with when learning Canadian...
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Source Saturday: "Letter of Protest" (1944) with Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross introduces a "Letter of Protest" primary source, which was a letter written by Mrs. Aya Suzuki in 1944 to the Canadian government protesting the unlawful sale of land and property owned by herself and other Japanese-Canadians. See the letter here:...
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In conversation with Patrick Hunter {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 38} Imagining a New 'We'
Join me and Patrick Hunter, the Ojibwe artist behind this year's Orange Shirt Society #OrangeShirtDay t-shirt, as we talk about Orange Shirt day and the teaching and learning behind it. #WeWearOrange Orange Shirt Day began in Williams Lake in 2013 and has since spread to schools across Canada.…
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Source Saturdays: "The Echo" (school newsletter) (Spanish Flu, 1918) with Sandy Barron
What can a source like a school newspaper teach us about the Spanish Flu? Historian Sandy Barron talks about The Echo, a student-run newsletter from The Manitoba School for the Deaf and highlights the ways the Flu intersected with the lives of students and community. Follow Sandy on Twitter:...
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Source Saturdays: British Colonist newspaper (1846) with Dr. Dan Horner
How can we broaden the ways we use newspapers to teach about the past? Dr. Dan Horner talks about a 19th century newspaper how we can read it to understand life, laws, and colonialism in ways we might not have otherwise. See the source here:...
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In conversation with June Findlay {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 37} Imagining a New 'We'
Many teachers have used the WE Charity to support students' social justice efforts, but this work has proven problematic. June Findlay shares her research on "charitainment" and the WE charity, and discusses the attributes teachers and students should look for when engaging in school-based social...
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Source Saturdays: "A Treasure for my Daughter" (1950) with Dr. Andrea Eidinger
Dr. Andrea Eidinger talks about "A Treasure for my Daughter" cook book from 1950 and how it helps us understand the ways a Jewish Canadian identity was crafted through food and tradition in the era of post-WW2 domesticity. Through this discussion, we are able to model how historians read primary...
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Source Saturdays: "War Bread" (1918) with Dr. Rebecca Beausaert
Dr. Rebecca Beausaert talks about "War Breads" cook book from 1918 and how it helps us understand the work, and desire, of "home front soldiers" to make a difference to the war effort. Through this discussion, we are able to model how historians read primary sources to expand their analysis of…
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Pandemic Pedagogy - In conversation with Diane Vautour - Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Governor General award winning history teacher Diane Vautour talks about how this moment can teach us, and our students, how life goes on during big global events and how people can become change makers. Follow Diane on Twitter…
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In conversation with Dr. Tim Stanley {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 35} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and antiracist education specialist Dr. Tim Stanley talks about the material connections we share with people all over the world, and that focusing on these connections can create better conditions for confronting racism in our classrooms,...
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In conversation with Leanne Young {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 34} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? History and drama teacher Leanne Young talks about how this moment provides a personal experience for students to work through, and that being a “life preserver” for helping students understand this moment, and the future that will come, should be a…
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In conversation with Melanie Williams {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 33} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? High school history teacher Melanie Williams says that we can teach history differently after this moment, but only if we are willing to change and broaden our stories. Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video series…
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In conversation with Dr. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 32} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID- 19? Historian and former social studies teacher Dr. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz talks about how much she is thinking of historical evidence during this time: what we have and what we're missing. This has prompted more reflection on whether history is a humanity…
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In conversation with Adam Bunch {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 31} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID- 19? Public historian Adam Bunch highlights how COVID and Black Lives Matter shows us how history is something that's deeply important and happening all the time. Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video series, here:...
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In conversation with Dr. Casey Burkholder {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 30} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Social Studies teacher educator Dr. Casey Burkholder emphasizes the importance of connecting activism with social studies to make change and develop more equity in our communities. Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video...
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In conversation with Mark Currie {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 29} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Doctoral Candidate Mark Currie discusses the links between anti-racist geographies and teaching and learning history, and argues that these links can help us think about how we enact historical exclusions and inclusions in shaping, and reaffirming, spaces....
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In conversation with Dr. Kristen Duncan {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 28} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Social Studies teacher educator Dr. Kristen Duncan (Clemson University) discusses how the grassroots Black Lives Matter movement can introduce to students how all people can make change and that teaching these diverse histories should be the goal of...
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In conversation with Dr. Julian Chambliss {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 27} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID? Digital historian and podcaster Dr. Julian Chambliss uses the commemoration of Juneteenth to talk about the promise of freedom deferred and that the social movements for greater equity happening during COVID reflect the anger at the long-term systematic…
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In conversation with Natasha Henry {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 26} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and Black Canadian history education expert Natasha Henry talks about how the pandemic has exacerbated long standing issues of preservation and curriculum inclusion related to the experiences and histories of Black Canadians. Learn about the...
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In conversation with Reshma Konstantinova {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 25} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Elementary school teacher Reshma Konstantinova (OCT) talks about making her teaching more impactful and meaningful for her grade 2 students, especially through her Asian Heritage Month Choices Board. Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the…
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In conversation with Edmund Sosu {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 24} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? History teacher educator Edmund Sosu (University of Newcastle, Australia), discusses the importance of using history to transform students to become moral agents in a world fraught with conspiracy theories. Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the...
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In conversation with Dr. Sean Kheraj {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 23} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Environmental and digital historian Dr. Sean Kheraj (York University) discusses how there are some good things to hold onto post-emergency online teaching and that a greater investment in thinking about these benefits will help us develop the skills and...
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In conversation with The Tattooed Historian {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 22} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Digital content creator and #twitterstorian John Heckman, The Tattooed Historian, hopes for a "creative boom" in history during and after the pandemic because historians and historic sites had to engage in the digital at an accelerated pace. Learn about…
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In conversation with Dr. Marie-Hélène Brunet {Pandemic Pedagogy convo 21} Imagining a New 'We'
How do we teach history during COVID-19? Francophone social studies teacher educator Dr. Marie-Hélène Brunet (University of Ottawa) discusses the importance of exploring the ways gender is built into the symbols and narratives we use to make sense of the pandemic. Learn about the Pandemic…
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History Education Strategist Dr. Samantha Cutrara's "Pandemic Pedagogy" series talking with with historians, history teachers, and others in the heritage field about teaching history during and after COVID-19. Also find academic conference presentations from 2016-2020.For more information visit www.SamanthaCutrara.com
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