Who We Are
Peter Seixas
University of British Columbia
Director, The Historical Thinking Project
Peter Seixas was Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia, where he was also the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness. He taught high school social studies in Vancouver for 15 years and earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Penney Clark
University of British Columbia
Director, THEN/HiER
Dr. Clark's research interests centre on the areas of social studies education; history teaching and learning; the historical development of curriculum in Canada; the political and economic contexts of curriculum development and textbook production; and deconstruction of text.
Carla Peck
University of Alberta
Associate Professor of Social Studies Education
Carla Peck is Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta. Before moving west, Carla taught grades 1 — 8 in rural New Brunswick. She is currently directing the Alberta portion of the pan-Canadian history education reform project, "The Historical Thinking Project". Her research interests include students' understandings of democratic concepts, diversity, identity, citizenship and the relationship between students' ethnic identities and their understandings of history.
Jill Colyer
Former National Coordinator,
The Historical Thinking Project
Jill coordinated the work of The Historical Thinking Project across the country from 2009 to 2014. In this role, Jill drove the adoption of the historical thinking framework into provincial curricula across the country and the inclusion of the historical thinking concepts into numerous student and teacher resources.
Allan Hux
Curriculum Coordinator,
Toronto District School Board (retired)
Allan Hux taught at two universities and five secondary schools over a 20-year period in Toronto, Ontario. He was the Program Coordinator for Social and World Studies and the Humanities, grades 1-12, at the Toronto District School Board for 15 years prior to his retirement on June 30, 2010. He co-authored eight history, law and politics textbooks, including two grade 10 Canadian History texts.
Lindsay S. Gibson
University of Alberta
Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education (as of July 1, 2015)
Lindsay completed his Ph.D. in the Centre of Historical Consciousness in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in July 2014. His doctoral dissertation "Understanding Ethical Judgments in Secondary School History Classes" examined secondary school teachers’ and students’ approaches to ethical judgments about a controversial event in Canadian history.
