Blogs

Anti-Black Racism in Nursing Education

A blog by Bahareh Samsamiardekani. Canada’s first nursing school opened in 1874 in Ontario. The first baccalaureate nursing programs began in 1919 at the university of British Columbia. Black...

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White Uniforms Policing Black Lives

A blog by Sara Anne Petrucci. On March 27th, 2020 Ottawa-Carleton School Board Trustee, Donna Blackburn harassed a black student athlete playing basketball alone in a public park. She...

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Critical Historical Thinking in Response to Civic Protest

A blog by Dan MacKinnon. In a brief moment away from the computer screen, I read an essay by Jill Lepore in this week’s New Yorker that strongly resonated...

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Unlearning Flaws: Reflections on Living a Nonviolence Curriculum in Education

A blog by Natalie Wainwright. I created this word cloud before getting started in order to flesh out the concepts that Dr. Hongyu Wang presents in her interview and...

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Whose Narrative is This? Historical Thinking and Dialogue in Education

A blog by Ben Hudson. I loved history at school. I spent many afternoons cramped between the scratched desks of stuffy classrooms in old buildings, listening to my teacher,...

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