History “through the looking glass”

dc.contributor.authorHarris, Karen Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-25T09:54:35Z
dc.date.available2019-10-25T09:54:35Z
dc.date.issued2018-11
dc.description.abstractThis article deliberates on the South African Department of Basic Education’s announcement in February 2018 to implement history as a compulsory school subject to the final year of secondary schooling. It outlines the process undertaken by the History Ministerial Task Team and assesses the report it issued, along with the initial reaction to its intent. It reflects on the chequered past of the position and place of history within the South African education system, re-visiting some of the post-democracy debates that have perpetuated from the previous century and spilled over into the present. In the paradigm of Alice through the Looking Glass, it suggests that we might need to go “backward before going forward” in order to stop repeating this conundrum.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractHierdie artikel oorweeg die Suid-Afrikaanse Departement van Basiese Onderwys se aankondiging in Februarie 2018 om geskiedenis as ’n verpligte vak tot die finale jaar van sekondêre onderrig te implementeer. Dit dui die proses aan wat deur die Geskiedenis Ministeriele Taakspan onderneem is en assesseer die taakspan se verslag saam met die aanvanklike reaksie wat dit uitgelok het. Dit reflekteer op die uiteenlopende verlede van die plek en posisie van geskiedenis binne die Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysstelsel en herbesoek die na-demokrasie debatte wat voortgesit is vanuit die vorige eeu en oorgevloei het na die hede. In die paradigma van Alice through the Looking Glass, suggereer dit dat dit dalk nodig is om “teruggaan voordat ons vorentoe” kan gaan sodat ons nie aanhou om hierdie strikvraag te herhaal nie.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentHistorical and Heritage Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.co.za/content/journal/histen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHarris, K.L. 2018, 'History “through the looking glass”', Historia, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 1-16.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0018-229X
dc.identifier.other10.17159/2309-8392/2018/v63n2a1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72007
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s). Published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.en_ZA
dc.subjectSchool historyen_ZA
dc.subjectHistory curriculumen_ZA
dc.subjectDepartment of Basic Educationen_ZA
dc.subjectCompulsory subjecten_ZA
dc.subjectNational educationen_ZA
dc.subjectPost-apartheid educationen_ZA
dc.subjectSkoolgeskiedenisen_ZA
dc.subjectGeskiedeniskurrikulumen_ZA
dc.subjectDepartement van Basiese Onderwysen_ZA
dc.subjectVerpligte vaken_ZA
dc.subjectNa-apartheid onderwysen_ZA
dc.titleHistory “through the looking glass”en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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