We propose a new framework for understanding post-conflict history education based on
ethnographic fieldwork in the same South African school two decades apart. We explore …

This paper explores the question of what is powerful knowledge in school history, drawing
on an analysis of secondary school history curriculum documents from South Africa and …

This article uses Bernstein's pedagogic device as a framing heuristic to trace the shifts in the
South African school history curriculum from 1995-2019. The article focuses on how the …

This chapter's review of post-1994 history textbooks and curricula in Rwanda and South
Africa compares the impact and implications of distinct types of reconciliation and …

Generational experiences create unique contextualised meanings for society. This is the
case with millennials in South Africa, many of whom use social media to organise their lives …

This paper was motivated by the anecdotal experiences of the lead author on the views of
middle-class Black African parents who did their schooling under apartheid and who were …

In this chapter, voice is given, by means of a small-scale case study, to South African history
teachers on the proposal to make history compulsory up to Grade 12. What emerged is that …

This article proposes that participatory museum theatre can provide a platform through
which learners studying history can engage a troubled past, specifically looking at South …

Comment l'histoire scolaire contribue-t-elle à une éducation citoyenne portant sur l'enjeu
des droits humains? Ce lien entre histoire scolaire et formation citoyenne n'est pas aisé à …

We examined the response of high school students in Israel to biographical texts. Students
were exposed to three sub-genres of biographical texts (a literary-biographical text, an …