 | Ruth Sandwell phone: (416) 978-1216 email: rsandwell@oise.utoronto.ca | |
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Academic History Ph.D., History, Simon Fraser University, 1998. “Reading the Land: Rural Discourse and the Practice of Settlement, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, 1859-1891.” Supervisor: Dr. J. I. Little. Fields: Canadian and European Family and Rural History. M.A., History, University of Victoria, 1981. “‘Making Health Contagious’: The Medical Inspection of Schools in British Columbia, 1910-1920.” Supervisor: Dr. Chad Gaffield.Fields: Canadian History of Education and the Family; English Social History. B.A., English, First Class Honours, Carleton University, 1979. Research Overview Dr. Sandwell's teaching and research interests are in Canadian history (of education, rural society and the family) and the teaching of history, and broadly reflect the importance of studies in the humanities in general, and history in particular, to theories and practices of education. More specifically, her interests focus on: •teaching history using primary documents •developing discipline-based historical thinking in students and student teachers •understanding changes in the meaning and purposes of history education in Canadian history •understanding the relationship between family, the educational state, and the Canadian economy in nineteenth and twentieth century Canada •exploring the growth of liberalism in nineteenth and twentieth century Canada •and most recently, the social history of fossil fuels: exploring the massive public education campaign and changes in household behaviour that accompanied Canadians’ change from self-supporting energy systems in their homes (mainly wood) to the collectivities and mass consumption of energy from the grid. Teaching Overview Dr. Sandwell has taught the following courses at OISE: TPS1461 Selected Topics in the History of Education: History Wars TPS1454 Battles over History Education (2009 permanent course replacing TPS 1461 Special Topics) TPS1426, History of the Family in Canada TPS1404, History of Rural Education in Canada Professional Activities PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS Executive Positions: 2010 External Examiner, Southern Cross Univirsity, Australia 2009-10 History Field, Co-Ordinator Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT 2009 Editorial Board, Activehistory.ca 2009- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University 2009 External Examiner, Dept of History, York University 2009-12 Editorial Board, Canadian Social Studies 2008-15 Executive Board, The History Education Network)/ Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HIER) 2008 External Examiner, George Sturt University, Australia 2008 External Examiner, University of Victoria, British Columbia 2007-08 History Program Co-Ordinator, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE/UT 2007 -08 Editorial Board, Agora, Australia’s History Education journal 2006-09 Advisory Board, Canadians and Their Pasts, SSHRC CURA Grant, Jocelyn Letourneau et al. 2006-09 Editorial Board, International Review of History Education 2004-08 Co-Director, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project www.canadianmysteries.ca 2004-08 Educational Director, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project 2005-7 Director/Editor, The Ontario Archives Project: in collaboration with OISE/UT history students/educators to create teaching materials for Ontario Archives Online Representative Publications BOOKS Ruth W. Sandwell, ed. To The Past: History Education, Public Memory and Citizenship Education in Canada, (Toronto, University of Toronto Press: October: 2006), 131 pp. R.W. Sandwell, Contesting Rural Space: Land Policy and the Practices of Settlement, Saltspring Island, British Columbia, 1859-91, Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, June 2005, 318 pp R. W. Sandwell, ed. , Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999). CHAPTERS IN BOOKS "We were allowed to disagree, because we couldn't agree on anything': Seventeen Voices in the Canadian Debates Over History Education," in Tony Taylor and Robert Guyer, eds., History Wars and the Classroom: A Global Prospective, (Information Age, 2011) “History is a Verb: Teaching Historical Practice to Teacher Education Students” in Penney Clark, ed., Cliffs and Chasms: The Landscape of History Education Research in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, in press, forthcoming 2010).
“Missing Canadians: Reclaiming the A-Liberal Past” Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds. Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), 246-273. “History as Experiment: Microhistory and Environmental History,” Alan McEachern and William Turkel, eds., Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History (Toronto: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2008) ), 122-36. Research Grants and Contracts • 2009-12, Principle Investigator, Heat, Light and Work in Canadian Homes 1900-1950: The Social History of Fossil Fuels and Hydro-Electricity. $72,000. • 2008-15, Co-investigator, The History Education Network )/ Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HIER) SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Grant for $300,00 per year for seven years ($2.1 million dollars total) to support research in history education in Canada; Penney Clark, UBC, principal investigator • 2007-08, Co-investigator, Great Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian History, Phase 5; Canadian Content Online Program (CCOP) of the Canadian Heritage Ministry; $499,000. with partial matching grants from partners. Principal Investigator: John Lutz, University of Victoria • 2006-07, Co-investigator, Great Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian History, Phase 4; Canadian Content Online Program (CCOP) of the Canadian Heritage Ministry; $465,000. with partial matching grants from partners. Principal Investigator: John Lutz, University of Victoria • 2006, Principal Investigator, SSHRC Cluster Research Design Grant, $25,000 to design and implement a research cluster for multidisciplinary research into history education, and to create the organization The History Education Network)/ Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HIER) • 2004-05, Principal Investigator, SSHRC Cluster Research Design Grant, $26,500 to design and implement a research cluster for multidisciplinary research into history education. • 2005-06, Co-investigator, Great Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian History, Phase 3, the Canadian Content Online Program (CCOP) of the Canadian Heritage Ministry $435,000, with partial matching grants from partners. Principal Investigator: John Lutz, University of Victoria • 2004-05, Co-investigator, Great Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian History, Phase 2, the Canadian Content Online Program (CCOP) of the Canadian Heritage Ministry $160,000, with partial matching grants from partners. Principal Investigator: John Lutz, University of Victoria • 2003-5, Principal Investigator, “Historical Consciousness and the University Survey Course in Canada” funded by the Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, OISE/UT ($4,000) Honours and Awards • 2008, Pierre Berton Prize for Canadian Public History for the educational website series The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History www.canadianmysteries.ca co-directors John Lutz, Peter Gossage, Ruth Sandwell • 2008, Chosen as the 2008 Canadian National Leader in History EducatCion by the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers’ Association (OHASSTA). • 2008, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) “History Classic” Award for the history education website project “Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History” www.canadianmysteries.ca (American based) • 2008, Finalist for the 2008 Book Award of the [American] National Council on Public History for Ruth W. Sandwell, ed. To The Past: History Education, Public Memory and Citizenship Education in Canada (Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 2006) for the best work published about or growing out of public history. [“The committee believes your book makes an outstanding contribution in the subfield of public history and policy.”] • 2007, Short-listed for the Pierre Berton award for Canadian Public History for the educational website series The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History www.canadianmysteries.ca co-directors John Lutz, Peter Gossage, Ruth Sandwell • 2003, MERLOT Award (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching for History for the website “Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice and Settling the Land.” http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/ • 2001, International World Wide Web Conference Committee’s NAWeb Award, 2001, for the website “Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice and Settling the Land.” • 2000 Canadian Historical Association Clio Award for British Columbia , 2000, for R. W. Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999 Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Ruth_Sandwell_CV.pdf |
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