Browsing by Subject "Textbooks"
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Assessment in the teaching of Holocaust history and Theories of Race
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)The focus of this article is Holocaust education as well as the teaching and learning of race theories, as set out in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) for Grade 9 Social Sciences (History), and Grade ... -
The contested nature of heritage in Grade 10 South African history textbooks: A case study.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Using the interpretivist paradigm and approached from a qualitative perspective, this case study produced data on three purposively selected contemporary South African history textbooks with regards to their representation ... -
The dilemmas of textbook selection – the Department of Education's 2007 screening of Grade 12 History textbooks – A case study
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Textbook selection presents a conundrum for history as a school subject. On one hand it is desirable that the best textbooks are available to be used in classrooms, on the other selection appears to imply control over ... -
The ‘firstness’ of male as automatic ordering: gendered discourse in Southern African Business Studies school textbooks
(AOSIS, 2018)There is little contention that gender equity continues to be a challenge in many societies across the Southern African region. Dominant discourses that perpetuate inequality are often reflected in school materials such ... -
Historical knowledge-genre as it relates to the reunification of Cameroon in selected Anglophone Cameroonian 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, 2017)Since the 1961 reunification of French and British Southern Cameroons, discourses of marginalisation, assimilation, “francophonisation”, “frenchification” and internal colonisation have emerged in public and academic circles ... -
Students’ difficulties with chemical reaction types
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)The initial problem that prompted this study was students’ difficulties with chemical reaction types (CRT). In diagnostic tests in South Africa, across some of the major universities, CRT reflected as the poorest score ... -
Teaching World War I: An exploratory study of representations of the Great War in contemporary African 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)far-reaching consequences, a violent episode of unprecedented magnitude which affected millions of lives and which brought lasting change to the world in which we live. One hundred years after the outbreak of this global ...
