Penney Clark is Chair of Social Studies Education, Director of the SSHRC-funded knowledge mobilization project, The History Education Network (www.thenhier.ca) and Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Historical Studies in Education.
Her awards include the Faculty of Education Killam Teaching Prize (2006), The BC Social Studies Teachers’ Innovator of the Year Award (2008), and the Education 100 Award (2015). She has received publication awards from the Canadian Association for Foundations in Education (with Wayne Knights) (2013) and the Canadian History of Education Association (with Mona Gleason and Stephen Petrina) (2012).
Penney Clark’s SSHRC-funded research projects ask questions such as: How have notions of Canadian nationhood been reflected in the politics and economics of English-Canadian textbook publishing? She has presented these research findings internationally and they have been published widely, including in the journals, History of Education (UK), Journal of Canadian Studies, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Dr. Clark’s second research area is the history of social studies and history education, as well as the history of history teacher education. She has published chapters in the edited collections Researching History Education (2014), Becoming A History Teacher (2014), and History Teacher Education: Global Interrelations. In 2011 she published the edited volume New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada with UBC Press. She has co-authored Canadian history textbooks for junior high schools and her co-edited anthologies are used in social studies teacher education courses across Canada.
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