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FEATURE: NOT TELLING—SECRECY, LIES AND HISTORY

Probing the Predicaments of Academic History in Contemporary South Africa

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Pages 26-48 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

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  • 1999 . Interviewed by John Wright, Johannesburg, 11 June
  • 1996 . In, Andre Odendaal highlighted the fact that only ten black historians in the country had doctoral qualifications. See A. Odendaal, ‘Dealing with the Past/Making Deals with the Past: Public History in South Africa in the 1990s’ (Paper to the ‘Future of the Past’ conference, University of the Western Cape, July 1996)
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  • 1998 . This was our experience on a tour of the island in October
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  • 1998 . South African HistoricalJournal , 38 : 200 – 204 . South African Historical Society, ‘Statement on the Implications of Curriculum 2005 for History Teaching in the Schools, 21 November 1997’
  • Curriculum 2009 and the End of History For an important engagement by an academic historian, see C. Kros, Report No. 3, The History Curriculum Research Project (Johannesburg, 1998)
  • Avery , P. 1999 . Shuter's Human and Social Sciences, Grade 7 Learner's Resource Book Pietermaritzburg et al.
  • 1998 . Battle of Ncome conference, University of Zululand, sponsored by DACST, October
  • 1990 . At the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, during the s from half to two-thirds of history majors commonly went on to study for a teacher's diploma. This rationale for studying history is receding sharply
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  • Ibid., ch. 13
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  • Ibid., 18–21
  • Furedi . Mythical Past esp. chs. 2 and 4
  • Ibid., chs. 1, 4
  • Evans . In Defence of History 4–5
  • Novick . That Noble Dream 593ff
  • 1980s . See the successive issues of the American Historical Review since the late
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  • Ibid., 59
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  • Scott , J. 1991 . New Perspectives on Historical Writing Edited by: Burke , P. Cambridge ‘Women's History’, in, ed., (ch. 3
  • Furedi . Mythical Past, Elusive Future ch. 7
  • Nuttall and Wright, ‘Exploring beyond History’, 42
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