A couple months ago, on a sunny Thursday afternoon, Chelsea Forster, Kaj Morawski, and I brought together and shared ideas in our presentation on a delicate, yet difficult subject matter. Our group talked about issues surrounding the article, “A Nice Little Wife to Make Things Pleasant:” Portrayals of women in social studies textbooks from the McGill Journal of Education (published in 2005) by Dr. Penney Clark, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy and director of The History Education Network/Histoire et education en reseau (THEN/HiER) here at the University of British Columbia. As we handed the class a short quiz with ten questions asking the students to connect famous women in Canadian history to their “claim to fame” or success(es) to see if they were recognizable or not, the quizzes came back with disappointing results revealing we currently do not have this knowledge. This activity segued into a viewing of three videos on the interactive whiteboard highlighted numerous viewpoints of feminism in Canada (and the United States of America) and its history in general. The presentation was capped off by having our fellow teaching candidates form small and large groups where there were plenty of interesting and engaging discussions which brought about lots of inquiry-based questions; very delightful yet, challenging. For my first presentation in this inquiry seminar class, I felt the experience to be quite beneficial as we were able to hear everyone’s analyses from many sides of the issues discussed at hand.
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