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Race, power and me: my position as a History educator in relation to the position of learners
(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, as outlined in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements for
GET and FET (CAPS) is both a journey of enquiry and an evidence-based
construction of the past. It enables learners and teachers alike to ...
Political economy of History textbook publishing during apartheid (1948-1994): Towards further historical enquiry into commercial imperatives
(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 provision of textbooks in apartheid South Africa (1948-1994), a source of
controversy and media interest in recent years, is placed in historical perspective,
with particular reference to History textbook production. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...