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Women in history textbooks - What message does this send to the youth?
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)
History textbooks, like all textbooks, play an important role in the
facilitation of learning. They act as vehicles by means of which past knowledge
legitimated by government and related authorities, as contained in ...
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 ...
"It would be well now to wind up this rebel business sharp": the post-Anglo-Boer War management of the Natal rebels.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)
Any post-war society is characterised by complex relationships. Natal society
after the conclusion of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) was no different. In this
article the post-war relations between the Natal rebels and ...
The colony of Natal and the management of its Afrikaner subjects in the build-up to the Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)
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In die historiografie van die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899–1902) het die voor-oorlogse bestuur van Britse onderdane wat historiese, kulturele en bloed bande met die republieke gehad het tot dusver min aandag ...
A history of the practice of ukuthwala in the Natal/ KwaZulu-Natal region up to 1994.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
The practice of ukuthwala has of late regularly been in the news. This has
spawned debates between traditionalists and modernists on various aspects
related to the practice. In this article we have tracked the reported ...
An analysis of the visual portrayal of women in junior secondary Malawian school 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, 2015)
Visual images are important in textbooks because they are a vital part of the
symbiotic relationship with the written text. Most importantly, visual images are
essential in history textbooks because they render human ...
The depiction of women in the verbal text of a junior secondary Malawian history textbook – an analysis
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)
This article analyses the depiction of women in the verbal text of a history
textbook used at junior secondary school level in Malawi. The focus falls on
how women are depicted in the textbook and why they are depicted ...
Confronting controversial issues in History classrooms: an analysis of preservice High School teachers’ experiences in post-apartheid South Africa
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)
The purpose of the study presented in this article is to understand the experiences of final year pre-service South African high school history teachers on their engagement with controversial issues during their teaching ...
First-year History Education students’ personal narratives of the history of South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article is based on a free writing exercise given to 31 first-year History Education students in which they were, asked to write ‘The history of South Africa according to me’. Using narrative enquiry, the stories of ...
South African History textbook research – a review of the scholarly literature
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
School history textbooks are seen to embody ideological messages about whose
history is important, as they aim both to develop an ‘ideal’ citizen and teach the
subject of history. Since the 1940s, when the first study ...