Jon Miles
Biographic Data
| ID | 94182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Miles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Miles |
| SIGNATURE | MILES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3209-0410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Truth telling in history classrooms: Pedagogical responses to denialism and pseudohistory
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour
This article explores how memory practices at sites of historical injustice are shaped by authenticity and absence. It explores a case study of a weeklong bus tour which visited over 15 historic sites dedicated to memorializing the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Drawing on the concept of dark tourism, this article explores how the bus tour was simultaneously a planned pedagogical experience, and part of a larger and…
The problem of teleological history education and the possibilities of a multispecies, multiscalar, and non-continuous history
In its concern with orienting students in relation to past, present and future, history education is crucially placed to pioneer generative approaches for making sense of change over time and to equip students to critically scrutinise meanings of history. Impending climate catastrophe, the still unfolding global pandemic and rising xenophobic populism are interconnected crises that demand an expansive view of historical understanding that might e…
Rethinking presentism in history education
Curriculum reform in a culture of redress: How social and political pressures are shaping social studies curriculum in Canada
Recently, the Canadian government has initiated a wide range of actions and gestures aimed at reconciling historical injustices including the state’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and nations. Reforming K-12 education to adequately teach Canada’s difficult past has been a key priority in this movement, leading to curriculum change across the country. This article explores the development of a new curriculum in British Columbia that explici…
The ongoing crisis and promise of civic education
The responsibilities of civic education are more significant and urgent now than in recent history. Global crises around media disinformation, resurgent populism and authoritarianism, widespread re
Curriculum co-presences and an ecology of knowledges
Curriculum scholarship is beset with unhelpful binaries. Lines are drawn between dominant and counter-dominant views that become stuck in a dichotomous relationship. Whether it is progressivism ver
The indeterminate influence of Fluxus on contemporary curriculum and pedagogy
This paper seeks to re-evaluate the pedagogical and curricular influence of Fluxus artists who have been under addressed in curriculum studies scholarship. Between the late 1950s and early 1970s this group of avant-garde artist-pedagogues experimented with new ways to think about curriculum and pedagogy in institutes of higher education and in their artistic practices. We argue that a Fluxus approach to curriculum and pedagogy can be understood t…
Educating citizens in waiting in post-conflict societies
The role and responsibility of civic education in societies with recent histories of armed conflict is fraught with complications. The turn to schools to resolve, or simply help young people unders
Seeing and feeling difficult history: A case study of how Canadian students make sense of photographs of Indian Residential Schools
Students in social studies classrooms are faced with a barrage of images, many of which represent historical trauma and violence. Although photographs can be used as pedagogical tools to represent experiences of injustice and elicit deeper understanding, they also activate affective and unrelated responses in students. In this case study, I explore the responses of Canadian secondary students to a set of historical photographs found in textbooks …
Historical silences and the enduring power of counter storytelling
In his celebrated book Silencing the Past (1995), Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot interrogated how power operates in the production of historical narratives. Trouillot argued that une
Measurement Issues in Home‐visiting Research Within Tribal Communities: Challenges and Strategies
In this article, Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) grantees share strategies they have developed and adopted to address the most common barriers to effective measurement (and thus to effective evaluation) encountered in the course of implementation and evaluation of their home‐visiting programs. We identify key challenges in measuring outcomes in Tribal MIECHV Programs and provide practical examples of various st…
Technical note: Quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs
Our understanding of the genetic architecture of iris color is still limited. This is partly related to difficulties associated with obtaining quantitative measurements of eye color. Here we introduce a new automated method for measuring iris color using high resolution photographs. This method extracts color measurements in the CIE 1976 L * a * b * (CIELAB) color space from a 256 by 256 pixel square sampled from the 9:00 meridian of the iris. Co…
Waiting out North Korea
Darwin's final message: We have no honour
There is much talk currently about the genetic basis of violence and crime. Yet far from undermining the National Children's Bureau (NCB) position that ‘children are not born violent: they are made so', evolutionary biology wholeheartedly endorses this view. From Darwin to Dawkins, the NCB stance is affirmed. Unfortunately, the war that has been running for over a quarter of a century within Darwinism has allowed certain evolutionary heretics to …
Darwin's final message: We have no honour
There is much talk currently about the genetic basis of violence and crime. Yet far from undermining the National Children's Bureau (NCB) position that ‘children are not born violent: they are made so', evolutionary biology wholeheartedly endorses this view. From Darwin to Dawkins, the NCB stance is affirmed. Unfortunately, the war that has been running for over a quarter of a century within Darwinism has allowed certain evolutionary heretics to …
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray
Outpatient Group Psychotherapy With Sex Offenders
Seeing and feeling difficult history: A case study of how Canadian students make sense of photographs of Indian Residential Schools
Students in social studies classrooms are faced with a barrage of images, many of which represent historical trauma and violence. Although photographs can be used as pedagogical tools to represent experiences of injustice and elicit deeper understanding, they also activate affective and unrelated responses in students. In this case study, I explore the responses of Canadian secondary students to a set of historical photographs found in textbooks …
Rethinking presentism in history education
Measurement Issues in Home‐visiting Research Within Tribal Communities: Challenges and Strategies
In this article, Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) grantees share strategies they have developed and adopted to address the most common barriers to effective measurement (and thus to effective evaluation) encountered in the course of implementation and evaluation of their home‐visiting programs. We identify key challenges in measuring outcomes in Tribal MIECHV Programs and provide practical examples of various st…
The problem of teleological history education and the possibilities of a multispecies, multiscalar, and non-continuous history
In its concern with orienting students in relation to past, present and future, history education is crucially placed to pioneer generative approaches for making sense of change over time and to equip students to critically scrutinise meanings of history. Impending climate catastrophe, the still unfolding global pandemic and rising xenophobic populism are interconnected crises that demand an expansive view of historical understanding that might e…
Historical silences and the enduring power of counter storytelling
In his celebrated book Silencing the Past (1995), Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot interrogated how power operates in the production of historical narratives. Trouillot argued that une
Technical note: Quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs
Our understanding of the genetic architecture of iris color is still limited. This is partly related to difficulties associated with obtaining quantitative measurements of eye color. Here we introduce a new automated method for measuring iris color using high resolution photographs. This method extracts color measurements in the CIE 1976 L * a * b * (CIELAB) color space from a 256 by 256 pixel square sampled from the 9:00 meridian of the iris. Co…
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour
This article explores how memory practices at sites of historical injustice are shaped by authenticity and absence. It explores a case study of a weeklong bus tour which visited over 15 historic sites dedicated to memorializing the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Drawing on the concept of dark tourism, this article explores how the bus tour was simultaneously a planned pedagogical experience, and part of a larger and…
The ongoing crisis and promise of civic education
The responsibilities of civic education are more significant and urgent now than in recent history. Global crises around media disinformation, resurgent populism and authoritarianism, widespread re
Curriculum co-presences and an ecology of knowledges
Curriculum scholarship is beset with unhelpful binaries. Lines are drawn between dominant and counter-dominant views that become stuck in a dichotomous relationship. Whether it is progressivism ver
The indeterminate influence of Fluxus on contemporary curriculum and pedagogy
This paper seeks to re-evaluate the pedagogical and curricular influence of Fluxus artists who have been under addressed in curriculum studies scholarship. Between the late 1950s and early 1970s this group of avant-garde artist-pedagogues experimented with new ways to think about curriculum and pedagogy in institutes of higher education and in their artistic practices. We argue that a Fluxus approach to curriculum and pedagogy can be understood t…
Outpatient Group Psychotherapy With Sex Offenders
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray
Darwin's final message: We have no honour
There is much talk currently about the genetic basis of violence and crime. Yet far from undermining the National Children's Bureau (NCB) position that ‘children are not born violent: they are made so', evolutionary biology wholeheartedly endorses this view. From Darwin to Dawkins, the NCB stance is affirmed. Unfortunately, the war that has been running for over a quarter of a century within Darwinism has allowed certain evolutionary heretics to …
Darwin's final message: We have no honour
There is much talk currently about the genetic basis of violence and crime. Yet far from undermining the National Children's Bureau (NCB) position that ‘children are not born violent: they are made so', evolutionary biology wholeheartedly endorses this view. From Darwin to Dawkins, the NCB stance is affirmed. Unfortunately, the war that has been running for over a quarter of a century within Darwinism has allowed certain evolutionary heretics to …
Waiting out North Korea
Technical note: Quantitative measures of iris color using high resolution photographs
Our understanding of the genetic architecture of iris color is still limited. This is partly related to difficulties associated with obtaining quantitative measurements of eye color. Here we introduce a new automated method for measuring iris color using high resolution photographs. This method extracts color measurements in the CIE 1976 L * a * b * (CIELAB) color space from a 256 by 256 pixel square sampled from the 9:00 meridian of the iris. Co…
Measurement Issues in Home‐visiting Research Within Tribal Communities: Challenges and Strategies
In this article, Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) grantees share strategies they have developed and adopted to address the most common barriers to effective measurement (and thus to effective evaluation) encountered in the course of implementation and evaluation of their home‐visiting programs. We identify key challenges in measuring outcomes in Tribal MIECHV Programs and provide practical examples of various st…
The indeterminate influence of Fluxus on contemporary curriculum and pedagogy
This paper seeks to re-evaluate the pedagogical and curricular influence of Fluxus artists who have been under addressed in curriculum studies scholarship. Between the late 1950s and early 1970s this group of avant-garde artist-pedagogues experimented with new ways to think about curriculum and pedagogy in institutes of higher education and in their artistic practices. We argue that a Fluxus approach to curriculum and pedagogy can be understood t…
Educating citizens in waiting in post-conflict societies
The role and responsibility of civic education in societies with recent histories of armed conflict is fraught with complications. The turn to schools to resolve, or simply help young people unders
Seeing and feeling difficult history: A case study of how Canadian students make sense of photographs of Indian Residential Schools
Students in social studies classrooms are faced with a barrage of images, many of which represent historical trauma and violence. Although photographs can be used as pedagogical tools to represent experiences of injustice and elicit deeper understanding, they also activate affective and unrelated responses in students. In this case study, I explore the responses of Canadian secondary students to a set of historical photographs found in textbooks …
Historical silences and the enduring power of counter storytelling
In his celebrated book Silencing the Past (1995), Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot interrogated how power operates in the production of historical narratives. Trouillot argued that une
Curriculum co-presences and an ecology of knowledges
Curriculum scholarship is beset with unhelpful binaries. Lines are drawn between dominant and counter-dominant views that become stuck in a dichotomous relationship. Whether it is progressivism ver
Curriculum reform in a culture of redress: How social and political pressures are shaping social studies curriculum in Canada
Recently, the Canadian government has initiated a wide range of actions and gestures aimed at reconciling historical injustices including the state’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and nations. Reforming K-12 education to adequately teach Canada’s difficult past has been a key priority in this movement, leading to curriculum change across the country. This article explores the development of a new curriculum in British Columbia that explici…
The ongoing crisis and promise of civic education
The responsibilities of civic education are more significant and urgent now than in recent history. Global crises around media disinformation, resurgent populism and authoritarianism, widespread re
Rethinking presentism in history education
The problem of teleological history education and the possibilities of a multispecies, multiscalar, and non-continuous history
In its concern with orienting students in relation to past, present and future, history education is crucially placed to pioneer generative approaches for making sense of change over time and to equip students to critically scrutinise meanings of history. Impending climate catastrophe, the still unfolding global pandemic and rising xenophobic populism are interconnected crises that demand an expansive view of historical understanding that might e…
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour
This article explores how memory practices at sites of historical injustice are shaped by authenticity and absence. It explores a case study of a weeklong bus tour which visited over 15 historic sites dedicated to memorializing the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Drawing on the concept of dark tourism, this article explores how the bus tour was simultaneously a planned pedagogical experience, and part of a larger and…
Truth telling in history classrooms: Pedagogical responses to denialism and pseudohistory
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Curriculum (4 works)