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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” ...
Stereotypes, prejudices, self and ‘the other’ in 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, 2012)
This article is a literature review of conceptions of stereotype, prejudice, underlying assumptions and images of self and other as relevant to history textbooks and related research. History textbooks are seen as ...
"Making history familiar": The past in service of self-awareness and critical citizenship.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
This paper explores the process of self-reflection undertaken by a History
lecturer with a view to promoting the same type of critical awareness among a
group of third- year History students at a South African university. ...
“Who does this history curriculum want you to be?”: Representation, school history and curriculum in Zimbabwe.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
This paper looks critically at representation in the history curriculum of Zimbabwe
in relation to the production of subjectivity and identity that the government
hopes will fulfil the quest for nationhood. It finds that ...
An exploration of the shifts in imagined academic and civic identities across four history curriculum documents
(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 analyses four curriculum documents in terms of the kinds of academic and civic identities that they would seek to produce. The curriculum documents are two South African (Curriculum 2005 [1997] and the Curriculum ...
Inclusive histories for inclusive futures: Interactions and entanglements then and now
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)
This article makes a case for the production and dissemination of inclusive
histories in public dialogue and public spaces of history consumption, including
classrooms, lecture halls, monuments and textbooks. Inclusive ...