Marie-Hélène Brunet is an associate professor of social studies and history education and also previously held a long-term teaching appointment within the Faculty. Professor Brunet's early graduate studies led her to an interest in the history of motherhood outside marriage during the Quiet Revolution period in Quebec, and her doctoral research, conducted at the University of Montreal, focused on Quebec secondary student's understanding of women's history. Professor Brunet is interested in history education, the history of education and the history of women and gender. Her current research focuses on the understanding of historical agency by elementary and secondary school teachers and students, as experienced through various teaching tools (narratives, textbooks, historical films, video games and children's literature). Her work also engages questions about the teaching of sensitive questions and power relations (such as language, race, class and gender) in history classrooms. She is the creator of the podcast 'Histoire d’enseigner : un balado sur l'enseignement de l'histoire', a VoiceEd radio partnership project.
Marie-Hélène Brunet
Journals & other
Brunet, M. H. & Gani, R. (2020). Les francophones (in)visibles : comparaison du curriculum ontarien en histoire, version française et anglaise.
Brunet, M. H. & Pollock, S. (2018). "When It Became Equal": How Historical Consciousness and Theories of Agency Can Explain Female Students' Conceptions of Feminism, Canadian Social Studies, 50, 11-24.
Brunet, M. H. & Demers, S.(2018). Déconstruire le manuel d’histoire pour (re)construire des savoirs plus justes. Récit de pratique en formation initiale et continue des enseignantes et des enseignants, Revue Féministes, 31, 123-140.
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Feminist studies
- Teacher education
- History of gender
- History of education