Yesterday & today = Gister & vandag
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.
For citation statistics for this journal from 2010 click here.
Educational and fair-use copying of the Yesterday & Today, for research and teaching and not for profit, is permitted. Opinions expressed or conclusions arrived at in articles and book reviews are those of the authors and are not to be regarded as those of the North-West University or the Yesterday & Today Editorial Board.
Collections in this community
Recent Submissions
-
Decolonising images? The liberation script in Mozambican history textbooks
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)In this article we examine the textbook narratives of the colonial past and the nation-building process in Mozambique, a Southern African country which gained its independence in 1975. One of the priorities after independence ... -
Understanding the complexity of teaching the genocide against the Tutsi through a career life story
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The Tutsi, the Twa and the Hutu are three social groups that have enjoyed a monoculture and lived on the same land. In 1994, around one million Tutsi were killed in a genocide organised by the then interim government. It ... -
Synchronous interactive live lectures versus asynchronous individual online modules. A comparative analysis of students’ perceptions and performances
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Interactive and collaborative learning in ‘live’ and online (synchronous and asynchronous) environments generates an influence on the perception, motivation and outcomes of learning among students. From that theory, the ... -
Sustaining the University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University partnership in the time of COVID: a qualitative case study
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This article offers a qualitative case study of how COVID has changed an existing international education partnership between the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa and Western Sydney University (WSU) in ... -
A self-study of pedagogical experiences in History Education at a university during the COVID-19 pandemic
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Educational transformation is an ongoing process. However, in 2020 the transformation in South Africa was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This global health threat was inadvertently a catalyst for considerable change ... -
Teaching History teachers during COVID-19: charting poems, pathways and agency
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)In this article I argue that Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) has necessitated and produced some transformative teaching methods, using the frameworks of Freire and hooks. However, I argue, that their methods are incongruous ... -
Online learning challenges postgraduate certificate in education History students faced during COVID-19 at the University of Zululand
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This paper intends to share empirical challenges of Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) History students faced during COVID-19. COVID-19 was characterised by, amongst other things, social distancing, which put ... -
Teaching historical pandemics, using Bernstein’s pedagogical device as framework
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This announcement came as a shock to countries around the world. Diverse responses across the globe exposed an ill-prepared world ... -
Teaching about dying and death: the 1918 Flu epidemic in South Africa
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)It seems obvious that while others around us are concerned with trying to understand the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways in which it has disrupted so much of our lives and professional work, history educators ... -
Two pandemics, one hundred years and the University of Pretoria: a brief comparison
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on higher education in South Africa and the University of Pretoria iinspired this brief investigation into how the university responded to the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. This article ... -
A new History Education lecturer’s university experiences during Covid-19: a personal reflection
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)On March 16th, 2020 I commenced my new job as a lecturer on History Education at Stellenbosch University (US), the very same day the University went into lockdown due to COVID-19. I have been a high school teacher for 11 ... -
Creating a collaborative learning environment online and in a blended history environment during Covid-19
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Collaboration is key to an effective history classroom. Discussion, peer work and learner engagement facilitate the development of historical thinking skills, understanding of historical content and a careful engagement with ... -
Stop thinking about tomorrow: even in the era of COVID-19 History is teaching past and present Reflections on teaching History during COVID-19
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has caused a crisis in education, with the digital divide becoming ever more prevalent in a society which is as unequal and fractured as South Africa. While ex-Model C and ... -
Teaching and learning History in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic : reflections of a senior school history teacher
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Teaching history during lockdown at an elite private school during the COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges and opportunities to draw on history and to learn new technologies. Challenges went beyond the content of history ... -
Teaching and learning history in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This is an academic yet personal and subjective piece written to analyse and reflect upon personal experiences with regard to the teaching and learning of history under the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this paper, I ... -
A reflection on History Education in higher education in Eswatini during COVID-19
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The closure of educational institutions following the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic called for the adoption of online teaching and learning. For decades, education has suffered in sub-Saharan Africa due to inadequate ... -
In the moment of making History: the case of COVID-19 in Zambia
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This paper discusses the unfolding of COVID-19 in Zambia between March and August 2020. Zambians were aware that international networks would lead to Zambia being affected by a disease that had caused much devastation in ... -
Decolonial History teachers’ charter : a praxis guide
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The below text is a practical charter which calls for history teachers, students, learners and then the provincial and national Departments of Basic and Higher Education to decolonise. Decolonisation is often talked about ... -
Maluleke, J.J. et al. (2020) Our Story – Godongwana becomes Dingiswayo [Book review]
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020) -
Grever, M. 2020. Onontkoombaar verleden. Reflecties op een veranderende historische cultuur Inescapable past: Reflections on a changing historical culture [Book review]
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)
RSS 1.0