Canadian schools devote time to Black history and the Black Canadian experience in February, but what happens the rest of the year?
Ruby Smith Díaz, seen delivering a workshop at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., is among a wave of Canadians making Black history part of everyday learning in schools.neighbourhood where the historic Black community of Hogan's Alley was locatedSmith Diaz, an arts-based facilitator, educator and artist, leads those tours as part of her workshop series exploring Black history and the Black Canadian experience with secondary students and fellow teachers.
Smith Díaz regularly takes high schoolers on a walking tour through what was once Hogan’s Alley, the historic Black neighbourhood in Vancouver largely demolished in the late 1960s. As Prairie provinces examine whether to add Black history to their curriculum, a Saskatchewan teacher is already making sure his students learn it anyways., Nikitha Fester is inspired by her students' enthusiasm and feels joy exploring "people who look like me, who have had shared experiences with me."
Exploring resilience — not simply focusing on historical traumas for Black Canadians — is key to her approach. In turn, she sees students make critical connections between past and present. Even though Black Canadians may be referenced in the curriculum — a settlers section of Alberta's elementary social studies curriculum mentions Black rancher John Ware, Birkett noted — if the teachers themselves have a gap in their knowledge, that's a missed opportunity.Having not seen it in his own schooling until he sought it out in post-secondary, Birkett intentionally weaves Black Canadian history into his teaching.
Dalhousie University professor, historian and writer Afua Cooper is teaming up with researchers, scholars and educators for A Black People's History of Canada. The national initiative will create a Black Canadian history curriculum and resources to support teachers and students., the Halifax-based historian is linking up with fellow scholars, universities, cultural groups and others to create both a Black history curriculum and a trove of multimedia resources.
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