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The life and times of textualism in South Africa
(PER/PELJ, 2019)
This paper analyses the dominant approaches to statutory interpretation through a historical lens. It argues that for most of South Africa's history the methods of interpretation were twisted in order to give effect to the ...
Market and entrepreneurial vision: the case of two family businesses in South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)
The question of “why do some family enterprises survive into successive generations, while other succumb to contextual constraints?” elicited different responses. Explanations vary from that it might be inherent to the ...
A Comparative Analysis of the Zambian Senior Secondary History Examination between the Old and Revised Curriculum using Blooms Taxonomy
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)
The 2013 Education reform in Zambia is one of the significant changes that brought about a shift in assessment. To understand the changes that have taken place in the 2013 revised curriculum, and to determine the claims ...
Education and the public good: Foregrounding education in history
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)
Historians can contribute significantly to education historiography to bolster education
transformation. Contemporary scholarship in education, in the main, mostly wrestles
with the current dispensation’s transformation ...
The use of online discussion board and blogs to enhance History student teachers’ Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)
The paper reports on research on History student teachers’ enhancement of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) using online tools like a discussion board and blogs. It draws on the enhancement programme planned for the History ...
Practical history lessons as a tool for generating procedural knowledge in history teaching
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2022)
Situated in the context of philosophy of history, this article explains the use of substantive concepts and procedural concepts to generate historical understanding and examines the relationship between the two forms of ...
Teaching and learning History in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic : reflections of a senior school history teacher
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)
Teaching history during lockdown at an elite private school during the COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges and opportunities to draw on history and to learn new technologies. Challenges went beyond the content of
history ...
Teaching and learning history in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)
This is an academic yet personal and subjective piece written to analyse and reflect upon personal experiences with regard to the teaching and learning of history under the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this paper, I ...
Historical Significance in the South African History curriculum: an un-silencing approach
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)
The South African History Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) emphasises the significance of History being that of empowering learners with historical skills and knowledge but there are critical gaps that ...
Indigenous South African poetry as conduits of History: Epi-poetics – a pedagogy of memory
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)
This conceptual article argues that a pedagogy of poetic memory, or epipoetics, can be used to remember and ‘re-member’ the past in the present in the history classroom. Epi-poetics as a theory encapsulates the dynamic ...