Browsing Yesterday & today = Gister & vandag by Subject "Historical thinking"

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    • Poetry as method in the History classroom: decolonising possibilities 

      Godsell, Sarah (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)
      Poetry can present historical material in a non-academic format. This format may be particularly important for students who are excluded from epistemic access (Morrow, 2007). This exclusion stems from many things, but ways ...

    • Recognising the academic and political purposes embedded in history textbook assessment tasks 

      Mackenzie, Basil; Steinberg, Carola (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 

      Bharath, Pranitha; Bertram, Carol (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 ...

    • Writing and contextualising local history. A historical narrative of the Wellington Horticultural Society (Coloured). 

      Cleophas, Francois J (The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
      The purpose of this study was to enhance local history as a focus area in a Higher Education (HE) teaching context. This article documented a case study of the practice of flower growing as a recreational-competitive ...