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REMEMBERING OUR CANADIAN HISTORY: LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE AND PRIDE
Jack Jedwab and Julie Perrone
Association for Canadian Studies
July 2, 2013
150 ACS Activities-National History Conference
ACS will Attempt to have this index ready for presentation at the PEI Conference and seeks your input as to what indicators are best suited to measure learning, knowledge, interest and identity salience.
Methodology Do we remember what we learned in high school about Canadian history? Do we remember the name of a high school Canadian history teacher? Which Canadians most often read about Canadian history? Which Canadians consider it most important to learn about Canadian history versus other histories? Which Canadians are most proud of our history? These questions were part of an effort to map knowledge and interest in Canadian history undertaken by the Association for Canadian Studies to mark the inauguration of Canadian History Week (July 1-8, 2013). The survey data cited in that which follows was conducted by the firm Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies with some 1503 Canadians via web panel between June 10th and 12th. The survey has a probabilistic margin of error of 2.5 points 19 times out of 20.
SOME SIX IN TEN CANADIANS SAY MOST OF WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT HISTORY WAS LEARNED IN HIGH SCHOOL
I don't remember much about what I learned in my high school course on Canadian history(June 2013)
:
Total Man Woman 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 +
Total absolu :
1503 783 720 161 188 255 322 257 320
NET AGREE
47% 40% 54% 51% 47% 45% 48% 47% 46%
Strongly agree
12% 11% 13% 13% 15% 15% 13% 8% 8%
Somewhat agree
35% 29% 41% 38% 32% 29% 36% 38% 38%
NET DISAGREE
45% 53% 38% 43% 47% 43% 44% 46% 47%
Somewhat disagree
29% 35% 24% 26% 37% 29% 26% 30% 27%
Strongly disagree
16% 18% 14% 17% 11% 14% 18% 16% 20%
I don't know
5% 4% 5% 3% 4% 7% 3% 5% 5%
I prefer not to answer
3% 3% 3% 4% 1% 5% 5% 3% 2%
• 55% of Canadians say they remember the name of one of their high school Canadian history teachers
• One-third vividly remember • 53% between 18-24 vividly remember• Drops to less than one third as of age 45• 54% can name at least one popular Canadian historian
• 27% can do so easily • One third of respondents agree that my Canadian history teacher influenced my attachment to Canada. Less than one in ten strongly agree
The history I learned in high school provided me with skills that were useful later in life
Total Man Woman 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 +
NET AGREE
50% 52% 48% 46% 40% 51% 48% 54% 59%
Strongly agree
12% 13% 11% 12% 10% 16% 8% 13% 13%
Somewhat agree
38% 39% 37% 33% 29% 35% 40% 41% 46%
NET DISAGREE
41% 42% 40% 42% 52% 39% 44% 37% 33%
Somewhat disagree
27% 28% 26% 27% 33% 24% 27% 26% 23%
Strongly disagree
14% 14% 15% 15% 19% 15% 17% 11% 10%
I don't know
7% 5% 8% 9% 5% 7% 6% 7% 6%
I prefer not to answer
2% 2% 3% 4% 2% 2% 3% 2% 2%
Canadian History readers rises at age 35Read books or essays
about Canada's history
Often Occasionally
Often and Occasiona
lly combined Rarely Never
Between 18 and 24 6.2% 21.9% 28.1 39.2% 26.9%
Between 25 and 29 7.0% 19.4% 26.4 39.2% 32.8%
Between 30 and 34 7.0% 21.6% 28.6 36.3% 32.2%
Between 35 and 39 8.8% 27.6% 36.4 38.6% 24.1%
Between 40 and 44 8.3% 29.9% 38.2
42.2% 18.1%
Between 45 and 49 5.0% 36.1% 41.1
39.7% 18.7%
Between 50 and 54 9.8% 30.7% 40.5 43.6% 15.6%
Between 55 and 59 3.8% 31.0% 34.8 39.2% 25.9%
Between 60 and 64 10.6% 37.1% 47.7
35.9% 16.5%
65 years of age or older 11.4% 39.5% 50.9
33.6% 14.5%
British Columbians most avid readers of Canadian history
Do you {b}often, occasionally, rarely or never… / Read books or essays about Canada's history
Often Occasionally Rarely Never
Don’t know/prefer not to answer
British Columbia 14.3% 34.0% 37.1% 12.9% .1.7%
Saskatchewan 9.0% 37.3% 28.4% 25.4%
Ontario 8.9% 32.7% 34.5% 22.7% 1.2%
Alberta 8.4% 32.7% 43.8% 13.7% 1.3%
Canada 8.1% 30.3% 38.4% 21.7% 1.5%
New Brunswick 7.7% 26.9% 51.9% 13.5% .0%
Manitoba 7.6% 20.3% 50.6% 19.0% 2.6%
Nova Scotia 4.5% 33.3% 39.4% 9.1% 13.6%
Quebec 3.8% 23.0% 42.1% 30.5% ..6%
Allophones help move world history to the top of what history Canadians think it is most important to learn; francophones pick history of their province
Most important Total French English Other
Maritimes QC ON MB/SK AB BC
History of the World
40% 26% 39% 56% 37% 31% 44% 28% 45% 45%
History of Canada
27% 20% 34% 15% 29% 18% 29% 37% 37% 26%
History of my province
10% 32% 4% 1% 12% 30% 1% 7% 4% 1%
History of my City or Town
6% 8% 7% 3% 4% 7% 7% 7% 3% 5%
History of the country of my ancestors
17% 15% 15% 25% 18% 15% 18% 22% 11% 21%
Youth regard learning about history of the world as far more important than learning about
history of Canada
Most important History of the World History of Canada World >Canada
Between 18 and 24 51.4% 19.3% 32.1
Between 25 and 29 42.0% 23.4% 18.6
Between 30 and 34 37.4% 24.6% 12.8
Between 35 and 39 42.0% 27.4% 14.6
Between 40 and 44 45.4% 27.3% 18.1
Between 45 and 49 40.9% 20.9% 20.0
Between 50 and 54 44.9% 28.0% 16.9
Between 55 and 59 35.2% 25.8% 9.4
Between 60 and 64 39.4% 28.8% 10.6
65 years of age or older 25.6% 39.0% -14.0
Total 39.7% 27.3% 12.4
In general, I am proud of Canada's history.
Total 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 + French English Other
NET AGREE
84% 70% 80% 83% 87% 89% 91% 73% 90% 82%
Strongly agree
43% 26% 32% 41% 46% 51% 55% 22% 53% 37%
Somewhat agree
41% 44% 48% 43% 41% 37% 36% 51% 36% 45%
NET DISAGREE
10% 19% 11% 10% 7% 7% 8% 20% 7% 8%
Somewhat disagree
7% 14% 8% 7% 4% 6% 6% 14% 5% 6%
Strongly disagree
3% 5% 3% 3% 2% 2% 1% 6% 1% 2%
I don't know
4% 9% 7% 5% 4% 3% 1% 6% 3% 7%
I prefer not to answer
2% 2% 2% 1% 3% 1% 1% 1% 1% 3%