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Some Problematical Issues in the Restructuring of History Education in South African Schools

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Pages 154-171 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • 1992 . The Weekly Mail 15 See the report on the Wits History Workshop conference on teaching history in (20–27 Mar.
  • Kros , C. and Vadi , I. “ Towards a “New” History Curriculum-Reform or Reconceptualisation ” . (Paper delivered at the ‘History for a New South Africa-1992 History Workshop Teaching Conference’, University of the Witwatersrand, Mar. 1992)
  • See, for example, J. Slater, The Politics of History Teaching: A Humanity Dehumanized, Special Professorial Lecture (London, 1989); and R. Sieborger, ‘“From the Romans to Wilson”: Has the English National Curriculum History Any Lessons for the South African History Curriculum Process?’ (Paper presented at the South African Comparative, International and History of Education Society Conference, Katberg, Oct. 1991)
  • Herzberg , W. and Kammen , M. , eds. 1980 . “ ‘The Teaching of History’ ” . In The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States Ithaca and London See H., ed.
  • Bundy , C. 1989 . ‘History-Then and Now’ . Mentor , 71 : 3 12
  • Stenson , M. 1990 . The New Zealand Journal of History , 24 : 2 – 81 . See, ‘History in New Zealand Schools’, 168
  • Haines , G. 1990 . ‘Education News’ . Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society , : 12 – 13 . (Feb., See also R.C. Williams, ‘History, Education and National Reconciliation: A Lesson from Australia?’, Reality, 21, 6 (1988), 5–7
  • Proctor , A. 1990 . ‘Towards a New History Curriculum: Some Observations on the African and Zimbabwean Experiences’ . Perspectives in Education , 12 : 1 78
  • Ibid., 78–80
  • Bundy . “ History-Then and Now ” . 12
  • Panel Discussion, Weekly Mail Book Week, Johannesburg (Nov. 1989)
  • 1991 . Sunday Star See reports of Prof. F.A van Jaarsveld's admissions in the (27 Oct. and Beeld (25 Oct. 1991)
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  • Bundy, ‘History-Then and Now’, 9–10
  • Walker , M. 1990 . Radical History Review , : 298 – 308 . See, for example, ‘History and History Teaching in Apartheid South Africa’, 46/7, and C. Kros, ‘The Making of Class: Beyond Model Curricula-A Preliminary Critique of the Presentation of History in South African Schools’, Perspectives in Education, 10, 1 (1988), 87–100
  • See N. Southey, ‘Making Southern Africa's Early Past Accessible: Alternative Histories for Schools’, South African Historical Journal, 23 (1990), 168–183
  • Wright , J. Perspectives in Education , 10 See, ‘Popularizing the Precolonial Past: Politics and Problems’, 2 (1988/9), 48–9
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  • Broodryk , M. 1990 . Die Unie , 87 : 4 – 9 . See, for example, ‘Die Onderrig van Geskiedenis in die Nuwe Suid-Afrika’, 116; N.L. Combrink and A. Wessels, ‘Waarom Geesteswetenskappe op Skool 'n Sentrale Posisie moet Beklee’, Handhaaf (Apr./Mei 1991), 5–7; and J.M.L. Horn, ‘Geskiedenis, die Gemeenskap en die Kurrikulum’, Die Unie, 88, 6 (1991), 125–7
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  • Cloete , N. , Muller , J. and Jansen , J. D. , eds. 1991 . “ ‘Human Sciences Research Council Incorporated (Pty) Ltd: Social Science Research, Markets and Accountability in South Africa’ ” . In Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Critical Perspectives Across the Disciplines 141 – 58 . Johannesburg For an in-depth analysis of the HSRC, see, ed., see also ‘Die RGN se Nuwe Gedaante: Neutrale Navorsing in Diens van die Politiek?’, Suid Afrikaan, 6 (1986), 11–13
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  • 1992 . Udusa News 1 – 2 . (Jan.
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  • Quoted in Slater, Politics of History Teaching, 5
  • 1990 . Sunday Times 18 ‘First There is History-Then Come the Facts’, (8 Jul.
  • Broodryk, ‘Die Onderrig van Geskiedenis’, 118
  • Ibid. See also Combrink and Wessels, ‘Waarom Geesteswetenskappe op Skool’, 7
  • 1990 . Sunday Times (8 Jul.
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  • 1991 . “ 3 ” . In An Investigation into the Teaching of History in Schools in the RSA: Concept Report 91 Pretoria See HSRC, chapter: ‘Criteria for Teaching History at Secondary School Level’, 60–105, but specifically p.
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  • Degenaar , J. 1990 . “ Nation Building: An Example of Outdated Thinking? ” . In Democracy in Action 8 – 10 . June/July
  • Look, for example, at the use of ‘group’ in the HSRC Concept Report, 14. It is specifically linked to ethnicity in this instance, yet the discussion is about multiculturalism in an international context
  • Kallaway, ‘Education and Nation-Building’, 31–2, quoting M. Trümpelmann, ‘The Rationale for History Education in South African Secondary Education’, in the HSRC Samevattende Verslag, second draft, and P. Kapp's ‘Die Gemeenskap en Geskiedenisonderrig’, HSRC Concept Report.
  • HSRC Concept Report, 14
  • See, for example, R. Gordon, ‘Serving the Volk with Volkekunde: On the Rise of South African Anthropology’, in Jansen, Knowledge and Power, 79–97
  • Kallaway, ‘Education and Nation-Building’, 37
  • HSRC Concept Report, 22
  • Bundy, ‘History-Then and Now’, 10
  • Morrell , R. “ History Textbooks and History Teaching in South Africa: Present and Future ” . (Paper, Department of Education, University of Natal, Durban, n.d.), 8
  • Callinicos , L. “ Popularising History in a Changing South Africa ” . South African Historical Journal, 25 (1991), 23
  • Morrell , R. “ Popularising History ” . (Transcript of a Panel Discussion held at the South African Historical Society Conference, University of South Africa, 24 Jan. 1991), 17–21
  • Ibid., 19–21
  • See HSRC Concept Report, esp. 13–14, 46
  • Kallaway, ‘Education and Nation-Building’, 13–14
  • The discussion of approaches to multicultural education which follows is heavily reliant upon C.G. Spinola, ‘An Analysis of the Phenomenon of Multiculturalism in the Education Process’, (MA dissertation, University of South Africa, 1991)
  • McCarthy , C. 1990 . Race and Curriculum: Social Inequality and the Theories and Politics of Difference in Contemporary Research on Schooling 38 – 56 . London
  • Ibid., 56
  • Todd , R. 1991 . Education in a Multicultural Society 51 – 5 . London See, for example
  • HSRC Concept Report, 74
  • See also HSRC, Education for a Changing South African Society, HSRC Education Research Programme no. 20 (Pretoria, 1990), chapter 2 on ‘Multiculturality, Education and Ideology’, 6–11
  • Brink , A. 1991 . “ The Past Must Not Be Laid to Rest ” . In Weekly Mail Review/Books Supplement 1 (29 Nov.-5 Dec.
  • Nkomo , M. 1990 . “ ed ” . In Pedagogy of Domination: Toward a Democratic Education in South Africa 306 Trenton, New Jersey
  • See, for example, the HSRC Concept Report, 16–19
  • Spinola, ‘Multiculturalism’, 128
  • HSRC Concept Report, 46
  • For a critique of Trümpelmann's argument, see Kallaway, ‘Education and Nation-Building’, 34
  • Sachs , A. and Kok , I. 1990 . “ ‘Preparing Ourselves for Freedom’ ” . In Spring is Rebellious: Arguments about Cultural Freedom by Albie Sachs and Respondents 25 Cape Town and Karen Press, eds
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  • Grundlingh , A. and Sapire , H. “ From Feverish Festival to Repetitive Ritual? The Changing Fortunes of Great Trek Mythology in an Industrialising South Africa, 1938–1988 ” . South African Historical Journal, 21 (1989), 19–37
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  • See, for example, the HSRC Concept Report, 75
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