Browsing Journals by Subject "Historiography"
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Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case
(2006)The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism. It designates a confusion in order of time, ... -
Ghana, cocoa, colonialism and globalisation: Introducing historiography.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The recently implemented curriculum for secondary History in South African schools - as set out in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS, 2011) - presents no explicit statement of the view of history ... -
History in senior secondary school CAPS 2012 and beyond: a comment.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)History Education has been a neglected aspect of the great educational debate in South Africa in recent times. Despite its high profile in anti - apartheid education the subject has not received the same attention as science ... -
A History teacher educator’s reflections after classroom observations: The need for multi-perspectives, oral history and historiography in a history methodology course
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Given current debates about South Africa’s contested past, how could teacher educators address this issue with preservice teachers so that their historical understanding develops and they present a multi-perspective view ... -
History, historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Whether or not the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) intended to write history, it certainly engaged with the past while historians were virtually absent. This article therefore sets out to take ... -
Recent trends in South African water historiography
(2008)The discipline of water history is relatively young but since the 1990s there has been growing interest in the field. In this article an exposition is provided on the origins of the discipline of water history as a ... -
Regional, local, urban and rural history as nearby spaces and places: historiographical and methodological reflections.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The purpose of this article is to review the almost 50 years of formal regional and local history research practices in South Africa under the umbrella of a variety of rural and urban trends, themes and phenomena. This ... -
Segregated schools of thought: the Bantu Education Act (1953) revisited
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)Various political parties, civil rights groups and columnists support the view that one of South Africa’s foremost socio-economic challenges is overcoming the scarring legacy which the Bantu Education Act of 1953 left on ... -
Testing transformation and decolonisation: experiences of curriculum revision in a History honours module
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)This article discusses the revision of a history honours historiography module. It discusses the rationale, methodologies and material used to respond to the imperative of curriculum transformation and decolonisation. The ... -
Utilizing a Historically Imbedded Source- Based Analysis Model (HISBAM) in the History school classroom
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)This paper aims to elucidate upon a model that imbeds historical skills, concepts and categorizations into a source-based analysis approach utilizing levels of cognitive complexity by combining different types of sources ...