dc.contributor.author | Maposa, Marshall T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-03T11:39:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-03T11:39:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Maposa, M.T. 2018. Marshall T. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 14(2):1-8. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1817-4434 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2415-2005 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/32126 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article is premised on the current (2015–2016) developments in South Africa whereby the country’s youth are increasingly engaging in discourses of South Africa’s post-colonial condition and the need for decolonisation. But how do the history textbooks that they use in schools construct this contentious post-colonial period? On this basis, the main objective is to examine the temporal representation of post-colonial Africa in South African history textbooks. Critical discourse analysis was applied on a sample of four National Curriculum Statement-aligned textbooks with a focus on sections that covered content on post-colonial Africa. The findings from the textual analysis show that the temporal notion of post-colonial Africa is not clearly framed within a particular period. The ambiguity of the temporal notion, a fundamental concept in history, stems from the fact that the lexicalisations used as time markers in the textbooks cannot be linked to one particular date, resulting in a post-colonial Africa whose beginning and – more specifically – end cannot be unambiguously determined. The textbooks also sometimes refer to the post-colonial period as singular, whereas in other cases they describe the period as consisting of different phases. I conclude that such ambiguity reveals a loophole in educating the learners about a period whose circumstances they are trying to not only engage but also transform. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v14i2.485 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | AOSIS | en_US |
dc.subject | Post-colonial Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | History textbooks | en_US |
dc.subject | Temporal notion | en_US |
dc.title | The representation of the temporal notion of post-colonial Africa in South African history textbooks | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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