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A comparative investigation into the representation of Russia in apartheid and post-apartheid era South African History textbooks
Halsall, Tarryn; Wassermann, Johan (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)In this comparative study we employed a quantitative approach, underpinned by the interpretivist paradigm, to analyse the content on Russia as found in Apartheid and post-Apartheid History textbooks. This was done by means ... -
Confronting controversial issues in History classrooms: an analysis of preservice High School teachers’ experiences in post-apartheid South Africa
Wassermann, Johan; Bentrovato, Denise (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The purpose of the study presented in this article is to understand the experiences of final year pre-service South African high school history teachers on their engagement with controversial issues during their teaching ... -
The depiction of women in the verbal text of a junior secondary Malawian history textbook – an analysis
Chiponda, Annie F; Wassermann, Johan (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)This article analyses the depiction of women in the verbal text of a history textbook used at junior secondary school level in Malawi. The focus falls on how women are depicted in the textbook and why they are depicted ... -
First-year History Education students’ personal narratives of the history of South Africa
Wassermann, Johan (AOSIS, 2018)This article is based on a free writing exercise given to 31 first-year History Education students in which they were, asked to write ‘The history of South Africa according to me’. Using narrative enquiry, the stories of ... -
Historical knowledge-genre as it relates to the reunification of Cameroon in selected Anglophone Cameroonian History textbooks
Fru, Raymond Nkwenti; Wassermann, Johan (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)Since the 1961 reunification of French and British Southern Cameroons, discourses of marginalisation, assimilation, “francophonisation”, “frenchification” and internal colonisation have emerged in public and academic circles ... -
Identity politics and being a Free Stater during the South African War (1899-1902): A micro-history of the inhabitants of the greater Drakensberg region
Wassermann, Johan (School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)The South African War was also a conflict about identity. Prior to the conflict, English-speakers with strong Natal ties as Orange Free State (OFS) subjects, resided in Harrismith, while Afrikaners resided along the foothills ...