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Using genre to describe the progression of historical thinking in school 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, 2015)
The focus of this paper is to describe how progression in historical thinking
manifests across seven South African textbooks, one each from Grade 3 to Grade
9. This paper argues that one way in which progression in ...
South African History textbook research – a review of the scholarly literature
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
School history textbooks are seen to embody ideological messages about whose
history is important, as they aim both to develop an ‘ideal’ citizen and teach the
subject of history. Since the 1940s, when the first study ...