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Who Killed Canadian History? Revised Edition (Paperback)
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Who Killed Canadian History? Revised Edition (Paperback)
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In the 1960s, A.B. Hodgetts in his groundbreaking "What Culture?
What Heritage?" bemoaned the loss of our history. Some 30 years
later, in this brilliant and impassioned new evaluation, J.L.
Granatstein points to an even more appalling situation in both the
educational system and in our daily lives. As he argues so
articulately, Canada is one of the few nations in the Western world
not to teach its history to its young people and to its new
citizens. The result: a nation that does not understand and respect
its own past. How bad is the situation? In a 1997 survey at York
University's Glendon College, 66% of first-year students could not
name a Canadian author, most could not name the first English- and
French-speaking Prime Ministers, over 50% could not give the date
of Confederation. In a Dominion Institute Poll of the same year,
77% were unaware that Remembrance Day commemorated the end of the
First World War and only 10% could identify the Quiet Revolution.
What is worse, when history is taught in our schools, it is too
often processed through the filter of political correctness. Who is
responsible for this unthinking conspiracy to eliminate our
history? Granatstein lays the blame with a number of culprits:
schools that are too busy teaching trendy subjects, and dealing
with the needs of recent immigrants; universities where history has
been reduced to a series of arcane subjects; ministries of
education that have dropped Canadian history as a required course
and approved "dumbed-down" textbooks; the federal government with
its misguided multicultural policies; even the media, which should
be above political pressures, too often uses history to search for
villainy. Granatstein shows that other countries, much older than
Canada, have understood how to treat history as a necessary and
important condition of existence. He offers wise and reasoned
solutions to a problem that undermines our sense of ourselves at a
time when national understanding is essential. Parents who want
their children well-educated, educators who face difficult
decisions, policy makers who balance many needs and all those who
care about their country must read this book.
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