Browsing Yesterday & today: 2020 No 24 by Title
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Maluleke, J.J. et al. (2020) Our Story – Godongwana becomes Dingiswayo [Book review]
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A new History Education lecturer’s university experiences during Covid-19: a personal reflection
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)On March 16th, 2020 I commenced my new job as a lecturer on History Education at Stellenbosch University (US), the very same day the University went into lockdown due to COVID-19. I have been a high school teacher for 11 ... -
Online learning challenges postgraduate certificate in education History students faced during COVID-19 at the University of Zululand
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This paper intends to share empirical challenges of Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) History students faced during COVID-19. COVID-19 was characterised by, amongst other things, social distancing, which put ... -
A reflection on History Education in higher education in Eswatini during COVID-19
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The closure of educational institutions following the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic called for the adoption of online teaching and learning. For decades, education has suffered in sub-Saharan Africa due to inadequate ... -
A self-study of pedagogical experiences in History Education at a university during the COVID-19 pandemic
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Educational transformation is an ongoing process. However, in 2020 the transformation in South Africa was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This global health threat was inadvertently a catalyst for considerable change ... -
Stop thinking about tomorrow: even in the era of COVID-19 History is teaching past and present Reflections on teaching History during COVID-19
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has caused a crisis in education, with the digital divide becoming ever more prevalent in a society which is as unequal and fractured as South Africa. While ex-Model C and ... -
Sustaining the University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University partnership in the time of COVID: a qualitative case study
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)This article offers a qualitative case study of how COVID has changed an existing international education partnership between the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa and Western Sydney University (WSU) in ... -
Synchronous interactive live lectures versus asynchronous individual online modules. A comparative analysis of students’ perceptions and performances
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)Interactive and collaborative learning in ‘live’ and online (synchronous and asynchronous) environments generates an influence on the perception, motivation and outcomes of learning among students. From that theory, the ... -
Teaching about dying and death: the 1918 Flu epidemic in South Africa
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)It seems obvious that while others around us are concerned with trying to understand the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways in which it has disrupted so much of our lives and professional work, history educators ... -
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 ... -
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 historical pandemics, using Bernstein’s pedagogical device as framework
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This announcement came as a shock to countries around the world. Diverse responses across the globe exposed an ill-prepared world ... -
Teaching History teachers during COVID-19: charting poems, pathways and agency
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)In this article I argue that Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) has necessitated and produced some transformative teaching methods, using the frameworks of Freire and hooks. However, I argue, that their methods are incongruous ... -
Two pandemics, one hundred years and the University of Pretoria: a brief comparison
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on higher education in South Africa and the University of Pretoria iinspired this brief investigation into how the university responded to the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. This article ... -
Understanding the complexity of teaching the genocide against the Tutsi through a career life story
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)The Tutsi, the Twa and the Hutu are three social groups that have enjoyed a monoculture and lived on the same land. In 1994, around one million Tutsi were killed in a genocide organised by the then interim government. It ...