Six Facing History and Ourselves classrooms from four different schools in Toronto are taking part in a pilot project that connects professional artists with students. The topic: using art to understand and memorialize history. The project kicked...
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Tides Canada announced that Facing History and Ourselves in Canada was one of the organization’s Top 10 of 2011. Tides Canada is the nation’s largest public foundation dedicated to the environment and social justice. “...
Click here to register online! Our core seminar uses our resource book Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior to examine how history is shaped by hatred, indifference, and denial as well as by caring, compassion, and...
This August a group of 30 teachers and administrators representing public, Catholic, and Jewish schools from across Southern Ontario attended our seminar at the Ontario Institute of Education of the University of Toronto. Participants tackled the...
Desiree is using Facing History material to design her English class at Humberside. She will develop an essay writing unit on “Issues of Social Justice” called “Who are We, and What are We For?” The students will read and respond to essays as well...
In November 2009, 30 teachers studied colorful tapestries (pictured above) sewn by Chilean women during the Pinochet dictatorship to learn about the power of art as a tool of protest. The group learned about the history of Chile from Patricio...
