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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 ...