Vancouver School Names, 1886-2023
Continuity and Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21572467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay Gibson (0009-0007-1394-3445), Mallory Davies (University of Waterloo) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Studies in Education / Revue d histoire de l éducation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0843-5057 • E-ISSN: 1911-9674 |
| Publisher | Historical Studies in Education (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.32316/hse-rhe.2024.5311 |
| OpenAlex | W4400159882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Over the past few years, controversies about commemorations, including statues, street names, buildings, and school names, have been at the forefront of public debate in Canada and around the world. In Vancouver, students, members of the public, and community groups have called for renaming various Vancouver School Board schools. Inspired by these debates, we analyzed newspapers, school board minutes and reports, census data, and various secondary sources to better understand Vancouver school naming practices between 1886 and 2023. Drawing from scholarship in critical toponymy, our research note demonstrates that Vancouver’s school names provide valuable insights into the beliefs, values, and attitudes of the people who made decisions about school names, the ways collective memory and settler identity were institutionalized in schools, and the politics of naming and renaming. Our hope is that this research will inform public debates about Vancouver school naming and renaming, and contribute to historically informed decision-making for a more just and equitable future
Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Go Do Some Great Thing
Place Names
Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives
Brokering Belonging
Critical Toponymies
Memorial landscapes
The classroom as “toponymic workspace”
School Names as Cultural Arenas
Enriching Ethical Judgments in History Education
Toponymic Commemoration of National Figures
Settler-Colonialism, Memoricide and Indigenous Toponymic Memory
Geographies of toponymic inscription
Unsettling Settler Belonging
Wounded cities
Mapping the political toponymy of educational namescapes
From number to name
Street naming and the politics of belonging
The Enemy That Never Was
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |