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Recognising the academic and political purposes embedded in history textbook assessment tasks
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
This paper explores the nature of history as a school-based discipline and how
history is recontextualised in the South African History Curriculum and Assessment
Policy Statement (CAPS) and Grade 10 history textbooks, ...
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 ...
Reflections on applying critical discourse analysis methodologies in analysing 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, 2015)
This article is a reflection on the choice to apply Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
in a large scale study in which South African history textbooks were analysed for
their construction of African consciousness. The ...
The integration of cell phone technology and poll everywhere as teaching and learning tools into the school History classroom
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
In recent years there has been a growing amount of research concerned with
integrating mobile technologies for teaching and learning purposes. In spite of the
rapid proliferation of the cell phone as an indispensable ...
Moral judgments in the history classroom: thoughts of selected novice history teachers
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
History is laden with contentious issues and the history teacher has to negotiate
how to handle such issues in almost every class. One of the propensities of both
history teachers and learners is to make moral judgments ...
The role of History textbooks in promoting historical thinking in South African classrooms
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
This article focuses on the analysis of three textbooks that are based on the
Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), a revised curriculum from the
National Curriculum Statement which was implemented in 2008. ...
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 ...
The dilemmas of textbook selection – the Department of Education's 2007 screening of Grade 12 History textbooks – A case study
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
Textbook selection presents a conundrum for history as a school subject. On one
hand it is desirable that the best textbooks are available to be used in classrooms,
on the other selection appears to imply control over ...
Boehmer, E. 2015. The shouting in the dark. [Book review]
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
A systematic method for dealing with source-based questions
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
This article is intended to help both learners and teachers get to grip with the
source material used in examination and tests by providing a systematic way
in which to analyse them for such factors as usefulness, ...