Professor
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
Dr. Clark has published widely on the production and provision of school textbooks in historical contexts, the historical development of history and social studies curricula in Canada, and history teaching and learning. Two co-authored publications have recently received awards from the Canadian Association for Foundations in Education and the Canadian History of Education Association. She is Director of the pan-Canadian SSHRC-supported organization, The History Education Network (THEN/HiER).
Contributions:
Clark, Penney. "History Education Research in Canada: A Late Bloomer." In Researching History Education: International Perspectives and Disciplinary Traditions, edited by Holger Thünemann, Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting, and Manuel Köster, 81-103. Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau Verlag, 2014.
Clark, Penney. '"The Teacher is the Keystone of the Educational Arch': A Century and a Half of Lifelong Teacher Education in Canada." In Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing, edited by Ruth Sandwell and Amy von Heyking, 30-59. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Clark, Penney. "'A Precarious Enterprise': A Case Study of Western Canadian Regional Educational Publishing, 1980-1989." Historical Studies in Education 25, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 1-29.
Clark, Penney. ed. New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011.
Clark, Penney and Wayne Knights. "'Gringo Operations': Nationalism and Capital in Canadian Educational Publishing, 1970-1981." Journal of Canadian Studies/Révue études canadiennes 45, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 123-61.
Keywords:
History of education; History of curriculum; History of educational publishing; History teaching and learning; Social studies education.
penney.clark@ubc.ca
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