Drawing on critical, hermeneutic, and Indigenous insights in education, in this special issue a range of curriculum scholars weigh in on the nature of truth and post-truth in relation to education specifically, as well as our situations as humans more generally.

This special issue of Canadian Social Studies, entitled Monumental Mistakes? Confronting Difficult Pasts, brings together a diverse range of scholars to explore the deeply contested nature of who and what from the past should be commemorated.