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Women in history textbooks - What message does this send to the youth?
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)
History textbooks, like all textbooks, play an important role in the
facilitation of learning. They act as vehicles by means of which past knowledge
legitimated by government and related authorities, as contained in ...
The contested nature of heritage in Grade 10 South African 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, 2013)
Using the interpretivist paradigm and approached from a qualitative perspective,
this case study produced data on three purposively selected contemporary South
African history textbooks with regards to their representation ...
An analysis of the visual portrayal of women in junior secondary Malawian 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)
Visual images are important in textbooks because they are a vital part of the
symbiotic relationship with the written text. Most importantly, visual images are
essential in history textbooks because they render human ...
The depiction of women in the verbal text of a junior secondary Malawian history textbook – an analysis
(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 analyses the depiction of women in the verbal text of a history
textbook used at junior secondary school level in Malawi. The focus falls on
how women are depicted in the textbook and why they are depicted ...
Confronting controversial issues in History classrooms: an analysis of preservice High School teachers’ experiences in post-apartheid South Africa
(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 purpose of the study presented in this article is to understand the experiences of final year pre-service South African high school history teachers on their engagement with controversial issues during their teaching ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...