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The Yesterday&Today (also formerly known as Gister & Vandag) was started in 1981. The Y&T is a journal dedicated to serve and academically stimulate the education community that teaches History and doing empirical or/and qualitative research in History teaching as well as research in any other themes related to the subject and discipline of History. In this way the improving of the teaching of History on all educational levels are promoted. The intention always is to accommodate a variety of teaching approaches or/and perspectives on the past. History’s associations with, and contributions in, other disciplines are also explored. The Journal has recently received accreditation status from the Department of Education of South Africa.
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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 ... -
Education and the public good: Foregrounding education in history
(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)Historians can contribute significantly to education historiography to bolster education transformation. Contemporary scholarship in education, in the main, mostly wrestles with the current dispensation’s transformation ... -
People, space and time strategy: Teaching History through image analysis at a rural secondary school in Limpopo Province
(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)Efficient teaching approaches are critical to promote a positive attitude among learners of History at secondary schools. Learners’ behaviour during History lessons and attitude towards the subject can be affected by a ... -
Fallism as Decoloniality: Towards a Decolonised School History Curriculum in Post-colonial-apartheid South Africa
(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)The 2015/16 student protests in South Africa, dubbed #MustFall protests, signalled a historic moment in the country’s post-colonial-apartheid history in which student-worker collaborations called for the decolonising of ... -
“Better a barefoot than none”: Influences of Nationalist ideologies on girlhood in the history 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 study adopted autoethnography as a research methodology to relive and reflect on my experiences as a White Afrikaner girl in a history class during the apartheid era in South Africa. This paper focuses on how the ... -
Silenced and Invisible Historical Figures in Zambia: An Analysis of the Visual Portrayal of Women in Senior Secondary School History Textbooks
(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)Despite their significant contribution to the country’s historical development, women’s influence is commonly underestimated and ignored in Zambian history literature. Subsequently, their role remains undocumented in ... -
How should a national curriculum for History be quality assured? The case of the South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS)
(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)The South African Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training, known as Umalusi, embarked on a project to quality assure the South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) ... -
Navigating and adapting the History curriculum as an official policy to realities on the ground in Eswatini, Waterford Kamhlaba United World College
(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)History is one of the most valuable subjects in the school curriculum. History plays a vital role in facilitating the political, social and economic development of Eswatini through the improvement of life skills such as ... -
The History curriculum in Zimbabwe: Wishlist versus realities on the ground
(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)One historian once wrote that the best historians need stronger boots and not a big library, a testament to the fact that the best historians need to be on the ground and do research in order to find information. In many ... -
Reflections on Sessional Paper No 10, 1965, a government policy paper that widened the economic, social and political divide in Kenya
(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)In Kenya, national philosophies are taught in History and Government form 4, unit 27. According to Julius (2011), national philosophies refer to a set or system of ideological beliefs and values which became widely ... -
Challenges related to the Zambian history curriculum
(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)The value of history to Zambian society is indisputable. A person who does not know their history will have no sense of belonging and hence will have very little motivation to contribute to the well-being of the communities ... -
Bentrovato, D. & Wassermann, J. 2020. Teaching African History in schools: Experiences and perspectives from Africa and beyond [Book review]
(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 book provides a remarkable collection of contributions that raise and discuss serious issues associated with teaching African history in schools. All the case studies show an exceptional sensitivity to the dangers ... -
Mbatha, S. 2017. U Zulu: Umlando Nobuqhawe BukaZulu (The history and heroism of the Zulu nation) [Book review]
(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)The book basically provides a narrative account of the long history of the Zulu nation during and after the colonial period. It focuses on the series of battles and wars fought during the reign of King Shaka, including ... -
Simpson, T. 2021. History of South Africa from 1902 to the present [Book review]
(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)The book explores South Africa’s journey from the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) to the democratic dispensation. Drawing on documentary evidence including letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts and ... -
Ailie Cleghorn (2021) Marjorie's journey - on a mission of her own [Book review]
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Sandra Rowoldt Shell (2020) CHILDREN OF HOPE: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa [Book review]
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Kim Nates & Tali Nates (2021) Portraits of Survival – Volume 1: The Holocaust [Book review]
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Peter Elliott (2020). Thomas Muir: Lad O Pairts The life and work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844-1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist [Book review]
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Teachers Voice Experiencing teaching history during Work Integrated Learning (WIL) / Teaching Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(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)One aspect of history education that was radically impacted on by COVID-19 was the annual WIL/Teaching Practice undertakings by pre-service history teachers. In this, the July 2021 edition, we have tried to capture some ... -
Heads of Department’s role in implementation of History syllabi at selected Zimbabwean secondary schools : an instructional leadership perspective
(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 qualitative study explores the school-based instructional leadership role of Heads of Department (HODs) in the implementation of different History syllabi. It seeks to establish the practices that History HODs carry ...