Teacher • PhD Candidate @YorkUeducation • Adjunct Faculty @NipissingU • Interests in Experiential Learning, History & Memory, PSE Pedagogy.
Ontario, Canada
Joined July 2011
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Call for applications is out for this year’s CBF study tour. Apply today and find out how learning history through EL is like no other!
Our 2025 Student Study Tour is now accepting applications. Canadian university students are encouraged to apply for this unique opportunity. The tour will visit First World War battlefields and Canadian sites in the Netherlands. Spread the word!
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This completely underscores the importance of history education at all levels including post-secondary education.
Shocked, shocked, I say.
cbc.ca/news/politics/canadia…
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Such great research and presentations on history education at the 21st biennial @CHEA_ACHE conference this weekend. Thanks @sara_karn for putting an awesome panel together!
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Great first day at the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University’s Summer Institute. Amazing scholars and educators! #hefnu #summerinstitute #holocausteducation
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Today I was honoured with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in teaching @NipissingU . I am so proud and inspired by our next generation of educators. I look forward to hearing about all the amazing ways our new NU teachers change the world! #nipissingu #schulichschoolofed
Back my roots! It was a pleasure to speak and share some of my research at this year’s NU history GRC. Thank you @NUHistDept and @HilaryEarl1 for the invitation and warm welcome! #nuhistory #grc #nipissingu
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Spent the afternoon with @HilaryEarl1’s Into That Darkness: EL study tour students, preparing them for immersive experience and reflective writing. In May, they’ll head to sites of trauma in Poland. Thanks for having me! #experientiallearning #immersiveexperience @NUHistDept
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For all educators - Sara’s work on historical empathy in the Canadian context is excellent. This year’s forum will be exciting PD for all of us!
Looking forward to hearing from Sara Karn (@sara_karn) on #historicalempathy for teaching and learning #history. Join us for an enlightening event on April 25th: ow.ly/jHbO50RaTif
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Looking forward to presenting with an amazing group of researchers and educators on this year’s Canada’s History forum.
Calling all educators! Discover innovative ways to teach historical empathy at Canada’s History Forum on April 25th. Free registration - don’t miss out! CanadasHistory.ca/HistoryFor…
#CdnHist #HistoricalThinking #HistoricalEmpathy #HistoryTeacher #SocialStudiesTeacher #TeacherTwitter
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It was so great to share some of my research on EDI&I integration on EL battlefield study tours for Laurier’s Faculty of Ed.’s Brave Conversation Series. Glad I could be a part of it! Thanks @jennifes_jm @DrEizadirad for this amazing opportunity!
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📣📣📣Open to any graduate students and it is offered virtually. Please share! #yorkuniversity
Call for abstracts is OPEN for YGSE's Graduate Conference. This year’s theme Beyond Taboos: Rethinking Education for a Changing World.
For more info, see here: ygse.info.yorku.ca/2024-grad… .
An amazing opportunity for Canadian university students to learn from the world’s best RCAF historians on site! Please share!
Applications are now open for our 2024 Battlefield Study tour open to Cdn university students. This year's tour, supported by the @RCAFAssociation, will study contribution of the @RCAF_ARC to victory in the SWW and its origins in the FWW. Spread the word!
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A beautiful and important tradition for the fallen. Thank you to the amazing children who continue to remember. ❤️
Every Christmas Eve local school children come to Holten and Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemeteries in the Netherlands to light a candle in honour of each soldier laid to rest. The act is both humbling and beautiful and serves as reminder to be grateful for the peace we enjoy.
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Received a beautiful class set of To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St.Louis by Kathy Kacer today. I can’t wait to use this to supplement my teaching of the Holocaust to my grade 6s. Thank you @Liberation_75 and @KathyKacer for your commitment to Holocaust Ed in Ontario!
An inspiring visit to the Toronto Holocaust Museum with @HilaryEarl1 and 48 @NipissingU undergrad and graduate students today. Thank you Pinchas Gutter for inspiring the next generation to speak up against #hate and for sharing your incredible story. @NUSUtalks @NUHistDept
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As SSoE adjunct faculty @NipissingU, a professional associate at the Centre for State Violence at NU, and a teacher, I look forward to continuing to teach Holocaust education and current antisemitism. #NeverAgainIsNow @DrConnorNU @HilaryEarl1 @NUSUtalks @NUFacultyAssoc
Local teacher excited about mandatory Holocaust education coming to Ontario schools baytoday.ca:443/local-news/l…
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What an amazing idea. @DrConnorNU - let’s get NU hist students on something like this!
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Historical empathy not only helps students connect with the past, but also provides them with the tools to better understand how that past has shaped the present. Especially in today’s world.
From The Homeschool Historian, Facebook
“This was built in 1912, right?”
“Yep, 1912.”
“Just think, mom: some kid over a hundred years ago sat in this seat, in this room. And maybe he was just like me, and we would have been friends. But he’ll never know I was here.” Her face took on an uncharacteristic furrowed expression.
“I know.”
“That’s so sad…” she looked at the desk top.
“It is. It IS sad.” And it was.
We looked around at the empty desks, most of which were reproductions, as the scent of dust and old wood settled around us. Our family was milling around, new visitors were creaking through the old school house, but I had this moment with her—right now—surrounded by memories of people long gone.
This is where it starts: with historical empathy.
I would take a child with historical empathy over a 4.0 and straight A’s any day of the week because, unlike tests (which are taken and forgotten), historical empathy has staying power. Historical empathy promises a lifetime of interest, grappling with weighty philosophical questions, and compassion towards people of the past.
Historical empathy is born out of personal interest, and if nurtured carefully, will reap the benefits of self-education the rest of her life.
I had to capture it.
“Can I take your picture?”
“Sure, mom.”
It was the best history lesson we ever had together.
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This is an excellent article written on the difference between dark tourism and engaging sites of trauma through reflection and analysis.
As our 2022 guest blog (holocausteducation.org.uk/20…) alluded, there's a sizeable (& growing) body of literature on Holocaust tourism &'dark tourism'.
This UN #WorldTourismDay we share links to stimulate thinking & discussion: theconversation.com/why-tour… RT
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