Oral History Education, Public Schooling, and Social Justice ― Troubling Cultures of Reconciliation

The interdisciplinary group of scholars in this book address issues of social justice in a global context by drawing on oral history as a form of consciousness—not just a method or approach to overcoming historical marginalizations. They show the special role oral history plays in cultivating historical consciousness of what is excluded, pushed aside, or made invisible, and thus is an important mode of public education in current contexts of national redress and reconciliation initiatives in North America and abroad. A significant contribution of this work is to explicate how oral history is critical to an understanding of the complexities of culture, as well as to historical consciousness.

Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is Director of Teacher Education and Associate Professor (Faculty of Education), University of Ottawa, Canada.

Kristina R. Llewellyn is Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Canada.