Publications
Cutrara, Samantha. (2020). Imagining a New ‘We’: Conceptualizing Canadian history education for the 21st century. Vancouver: UBC Press.
https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom
2021
Academic Writing
Cutrara, Samantha. (2021). Beyond Pandemic Pedagogy: Thoughts on deconstruction, structure, and justice post-pandemic. The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, 82(1). https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol82/iss1/1
Cutrara, Samantha. (2021). Introduction to Special Issue on Teaching and Relationships. The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, 0(1). https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol0/iss1/1
Mant, Madeleine and Samantha Cutrara. (2021). Navigating a defining moment: COVID-19 and curatorial thinking. FACETS, 6(Jan). https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0083
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2021, June 14). Death was the Point: Interrupting our shock at colonial practices. Thoughts on the Kamloops discovery. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2021/06/death-was-the-point/
2020
Academic Writing
Cutrara, Samantha. (2020). “It is hard to admit your own group did wrong”: Centering Whiteness and controlling diversity in the Canadian social studies classroom. Marking the Invisible: Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Education. Andrea Hawkman and Sarah Shear, Eds. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2020, November 11). Listening to the Voices from the Past: An invitation for a private, nuanced, remote Remembrance Day. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/11/an-invitation-for-a-nuanced-remembrance-day/
---. (2020, November 9). The American election results and the history of the international press: A discussion with Prof. Michael Palmer. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/11/discussion-with-michael-palmer/
---. (2020, October 30). Spooky Sources to Teach, and Challenge, Canadian history. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/10/spooky-source-saturday/
---. (2020, August). Nothing Will Be the Same After This: Four conversations that can help you recraft your history pedagogy and respond to an unknown future. CHA Teaching and Learning blog.
(2020, August 31). The Public Sphere.
(2020, August 24). K-12 Education and Public History.
(2020, August 17). Learning Outcomes.
(2020, August 10). Digital Humanities.
---. (2020, June 5). If you’re not doing history to make change, what the f— are you doing it for? ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/06/doing-history-to-make-change/
---. (2020, May 25). #LastNormalPhoto: A camera roll of grief. The COVID19 Chroniclers. https://covidchroniclers.com/lastnormalphoto-a-camera-roll-of-grief/
---. (2020, April 27). How do we teach history after this? Thoughts from the “Pandemic Pedagogy” series. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2020/04/how-do-we-teach-history-after-this-thoughts-from-the-pandemic-pedagogy-series/
2019
Academic Writing
Cutrara, Samantha. (2019). The Subjectivity of Archives: Learning from, with, and resisting archives and archival sources in teaching and learning history. Historical Encounters, 6(1), 117-132. http://hej.hermes-history.net/index.php/HEJ/article/view/122
---. (2019). Afterward. Beyond The Lecture: Innovations in Teaching Canadian History. Andrea Eidinger and Krista McCracken, Eds. eCampusOntario. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/beyondlecture/back-matter/conclusion/
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2019, March 11). The Significance of Women in the Ontario History Curriculum: The Findings of an Undergrad. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2019/03/significance-women-in-ont-history-curr/
---. (2019, February 4). What Black History Month Can Teach the Rest of the Year. ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2019/02/black-history-the-rest-of-the-year/
2018
Academic Writing
Cutrara, Samantha. (2018). Doing Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in Your Classroom. Pressbooks: York University Libraries. From https://pressbooks.library.yorku.ca/dhssinstructorsguide/
---. (2018). The Settler Grammar of Canadian History Curriculum; Or why the Historical Thinking approach will never be able to respond to the TRC’s Calls to Action. Canadian Journal of Education, 41(1), 250-275. http://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/3156
---. (2018). Considering the Transnational Cultures and Texts of Canadian Youth. Introduction for special capsule issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 10(2). 42-51. https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/445
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2018, November 19). Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for Experiential Learning. Teaching Commons @ York Blog. https://teachingcommons.yorku.ca/teaching-commons-blog-teaching-and-learning-at-york/
---. (2018, September 20). Interested in the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in your classroom but don’t know where to start? Innovatus yFile. York University’s News. https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2018/09/20/interested-in-the-digital-humanities-and-social-sciences-in-your-classroom-but-dont-know-where-to-start/
---. (2018, September 19). Digital History in the Classroom (For Beginners!). ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2018/09/digitialhistoryforbeginners/
---. (2018, June 27). Thinking about History Curriculum in Canada (while also recognizing the informal curricula we carry) [History Curriculum series]. ActiveHistory.ca. http://activehistory.ca/2018/06/thinking-about-history-curriculum-in-canada-while-also-recognizing-the-informal-curricula-we-carry/
---. (2018, April 11). Manitoba: Student-centric history curriculum? [History Curriculum series]. ActiveHistory.ca. http://activehistory.ca/2018/04/manitoba-student-centric-history-curriculum/
---. (2018, March 1). Who is History Education for? Thinking about Canadian history curriculum [History Curriculum series]. ActiveHistory.ca. http://activehistory.ca/2018/03/who-is-history-education-for/
2017
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2017, July 6). Why So Dull Canada? Deconstructing Canadian children’s books on Confederation. ActiveHistory.ca [Canadian Picture Book series]. From http://activehistory.ca/2017/07/why-so-dull-canada-deconstructing-childrens-books-on-confederation/
---. (2017, May 9). Dreams of This as Home: Deconstructing the representation of Chinese labourers in children’s history books [Canadian Picture Book series]. ActiveHistory.ca. From http://activehistory.ca/2017/05/dreams-of-this-as-home-chinese-labourers-in-childrens-history-books/
---. (2017, March 8). Where have all the Suffragists gone? Deconstructing children’s history books [Canadian Picture Book series]. ActiveHistory.ca. From http://activehistory.ca/2017/03/where-have-all-the-suffragists-gone-deconstructing-childrens-history-books/
2016
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2016, December 8). Deconstructing Children’s History Books: Residential Schools [Canadian Picture Book Series]. ActiveHistory.ca. From http://activehistory.ca/2016/12/deconstructing-childrens-history-books-residential-schools/
2010-2015
Academic Writing
Cutrara, Samantha. (2012). Drawn out of History: The representation of women in Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A comic strip biography. Graphic Novels and History. Rick Iadonisi, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
---. (2010). Transformative History: The possibilities of Historic Space. Canadian Social Studies, 41(1), 4-17. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yUc2Bc92nh6NYo_f7Tc7NLj6ULV9LQi_
---. (2009). To Placate or Provoke: A critical review of the disciplines approach to history curriculum. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum, 7(2), 88-109. https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/article/view/22717
Popular Writing (Blogs)
Cutrara, Samantha. (2015, August 16). Learning Over Teaching: Being a history education strategist. Originally published on The History Education Network’s blog Teaching the Past: A Blog about Teaching History in Canada. Can be accessed on https://www.samanthacutrara.com/www/blog/learningoverteaching
---. (2015, February 16). Delight in Learning. SamanthaCutrara.com. From http://www.samanthacutrara.com/blog/delightinlearning.
---. (2014). Meaningful Learning in History. Featured Members, The History Education Network/Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER). From http://thenhier.ca/en/content/meaningful-learning-history-samantha-cutrara.html .
--- (2011, June 15). Who is History Education For? Teaching the Past: A Blog about Teaching History in Canada. From https://canadianhistoryeducation.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/who-is-history-education-for/
--- (2011, March 7). 5 articles (+2) I have found helpful in my research. Teaching the Past: A Blog about Teaching History in Canada. From https://canadianhistoryeducation.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/5-articles-2-i-have-found-helpful-in-my-research/
---. (2011, January 26). Reflections from the Field: Teacher/Research Collaboration. Teaching the Past: A Blog about Teaching History in Canada. From https://canadianhistoryeducation.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/reflections-from-the-field-teacherresearch-collaboration/
Editing projects
Councilor 1
Capsule Issue on
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Coucilor 2
Capsult issue on
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Jeunesse
Capsule Issue on Transnationalism and Canadian Youth
Brisson, Geneviève. Plurilingualism and Transnational Identities in a Francophone Minority Classroom.
Glassford, Sarah. “International Friendliness” and Canadian Identities: Transnational Tensions in Canadian Junior Red Cross Texts, 1919-1939.
Malenfant, Jayne. Anarchist Youth in Rural Canada: Technology, Resistance, and the Navigation of Space.
Ostashewski, Marcia, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, and Shaylene Johnson. Youth-Engaged Art-based Research in Cape Breton: Transcending Nations, Boundaries and Identities.
Active History (2017-2018)
Special series on History Curriculum
Dery, Catherine. (2018, June 6). Quebec History Curriculum: A program with inconsistencies.
Fine-Meyer, Rose. (2019, March 12). The “role of women” in Ontario school history narratives.
Gibson, Lindsay and Carla Peck. (2018, May 9). The Place of History in Alberta Social Studies Curriculum.
Wallace-Casey, Cynthia. (2018, January 10). New Brunswick History Curriculum: Language Rights and Place-based History Education.