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Contemporary relevance – a category of historical science and of the didactics of history and its consequences in teacher training
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
Contemporary relevance as a category of the didactics of history teaching includes not only historical facts which might be deemed the causes of present-day problems and circumstances but also those which, on the grounds ...
“Word generation” and skills around learning and teaching History
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
The Word Generation Programme (WordGen), produced by Harvard University Education School in 2006, presents ways of engaging with and improving literacy skills in school going students. WordGen comprises a set of freely ...
The founding of the Marloth Nature Reserve: a historic example of collaborative conservation
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
During the 1970s collaborative conservation between management bodies and citizens became a field of academic interest. It is globally practised today and implies consensus-based decision-making, often with a special ...
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 ...
Rethinking the reflective praxis of the name Social Science: Pedagogical ‘mischief’ in the Grade 4 to 9 Social Science curriculum
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
The article depicts the global history of the Social Science (SS) curriculum to illustrate that already by the 19th century Geography and History had been divided. The influence of non-integration of the SS was mainly by ...
Some notes on the early history of the Tembe, 1280 AD-1800 AD
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
The Tembe tribe, which resides south of Maputo Bay, originates from the present day Zimbabwe and is also linked through archaeological evidence to the ancient state of Mapungubwe. It migrated to Mozambique and later occupied ...