Jake K. Bergen

The University of Winnipeg · Faculty of Education

Anti-racist education confronts and dismantles Whiteness and systemic racism in education. In teacher education, Whiteness pervades the structure of programs and courses, with discursive, curricular, and pedagogical implications, in particular for Black, Indigenous, and students of colour. In order to enact meaningful anti-racist education, challen...

Citizen science, research in which members of the public actively contribute scientific data, has recently evolved as a means to support scientific inquiry in the classroom, particularly in fields related to ecology and environmental science. Our research focuses on a collaborative project with teacher candidates, a science education professor, and...

This chapter examines some examples of the pedagogical practices that aim to prepare teacher candidates to teach civic education. To critically analyze citizenship and global citizenship education initiatives in some of the teacher education programs in Canada, England, and the United States, it draws upon Andreotti’s spectrum of ‘soft’ to ‘critica...

According to the government agency responsible for tabulating trends in voting patterns, electoral participation in Canada plunged steadily from the 1990s to early twenty-first century; most of the decline is attributed to a dwindling of interest among youth voters, specifically those between 18 and 24 years of age. Recent national and internationa...