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dc.contributor.authorMaposa, Marshall T.
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-03T11:39:07Z
dc.date.available2019-04-03T11:39:07Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationMaposa, 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.issn1817-4434
dc.identifier.issn2415-2005 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/32126
dc.description.abstractThis 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.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/td.v14i2.485
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSISen_US
dc.subjectPost-colonial Africaen_US
dc.subjectHistory textbooksen_US
dc.subjectTemporal notionen_US
dc.titleThe representation of the temporal notion of post-colonial Africa in South African history textbooksen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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