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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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Virtues in Danish History textbooks since enlightenment
(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 above quoted statement by the famous Russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, can to my opinion be interpreted as a dream of revitalization of good, old Russian virtues, which the communist regime had silenced and placed ... -
Mobile concepts in a mobile environment: Historical terms in LSP lexicography
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)Historical terms have a tendency to be “mobile” in terms of geographical space and historical time. The presentation of historical terms by means of a mobile dictionary enabling university students to access such terms by ... -
Implementing Flipped Classroom in History: The reactions of eighth grade students in a Portuguese school
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)Despite the difficulties of integrating every student, every teacher and every school in the digital revolution of the 21st century, there are new tendencies in education using digital technology that are trying to change ... -
A comparative investigation into the representation of Russia in apartheid and post-apartheid era South African History textbooks
(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 ... -
Reimagining the journey – expanding the History curriculum to teach for depth of understanding in the FET Phase
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)While the NSC CAPS does prescribe topics to be taught in the FET Phase of schooling, it does not restrict an educator from teaching additional topics or extending topics. It will be argued that there is a necessity for ... -
Schiffrin, A. & Lugalambi, G. 2017. African muckracking: 75 Years of investigative journalism in Africa [Book review]
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Melber, H. 2017. The rise of Africa’s middle class: Myths, realities and critical engagements. [Book review]
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Van Eeden, E. & Warnich, P. et al. 2018. Teaching and learning History and Geography in the South African classroom. [Book review]
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Hamilton, C. & Leibhammer, N. 2017. Tribing and untribing the archive: Volumes 1 & 2. [Book review]
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Wassermann, J. (Ed.) 2014. Teaching Social Sciences: Intermediate and senior phases. [Book review]
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History education: Reaching beyond the confines of the classroom. A hands-on discussion of the implementation of rapidly improving technological tools in History pedagogy
(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 dawn of the twenty-first century the technological tools at the disposal of teachers have improved exponentially. In the current education environment, the History teacher can reach far beyond the confines of a ... -
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 ... -
The strong state and embedded dissonance: History education and populist politics in Hungary
(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 hopefulness that accompanied the establishment of the Republic of Hungary in 1989 was soon tempered by divided politics that seemed unable to address systemic economic woes facing the nation. Though the 1956 Revolution ... -
Historical knowledge-genre as it relates to the reunification of Cameroon in selected Anglophone Cameroonian History textbooks
(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 ... -
“What do I have to know to teach History well?” Knowledge and expertise in History teaching – a proposal
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)Recent international research has made it clear that empirical educational research and investigations of individual subject didactics are paying increasing attention to the quality of History teachers. History didactics ... -
Integrating Afrikaner women’s history in senior secondary school CAPS through an evaluation of women’s “sense of independence”
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)In 2011 the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for History at senior secondary school level was released. The content selection was directly influenced by the notion that History supports citizenship within ... -
Magaziner, D. 2017. The art of life in South Africa. [Book review]
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Bundy, C. 2016. A Jacana Pocket History – Poverty in South Africa: Past and present [Book review]
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Crossing the “chalkboard-keyboarddivide” on a shoestring budget
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)This article focusses on creative ways that history teachers can use technology in their classroom especially where resources are limited. Ideas are shared on how to make the teaching and learning process fun and how to ... -
Nostalgia, memory and History teaching and learning
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)“… there is a twilight zone between history and memory; between the past as a generalized record which is open to relatively dispassionate inspection and the past as a remembered part of, or background to, one’s own life” ...
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