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The History Workshop, Teacher Development and Outcomes-Based Education over the Past Seven Years1
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In this article, the History Workshop (HW) at the University of the Witwatersrand has made an immense contribution to the teaching of history in secondary school through its teachers' workshops.Abstract:
Besides its pioneering scholarship on the social histories of the marginalised and oppressed communities in South Africa, the History Workshop (HW) at the University of the Witwatersrand has also made an immense contribution to the teaching of history in secondary school through its teachers’ workshops. Its input in the realm of teacher development has been quite remarkable in the context of the changing curriculum and educational policy more generally since the 1990s – an aspect of the HW's intellectual project that has received limited scholarly attention. After the introduction of the new curriculum, oral history was placed at the centre of the history syllabus from the early 2000s. However, the curriculum gave no concrete guidelines on how to deal with the complexities of oral history or other new components of the syllabus. Furthermore, no provision had been made for the retraining of the teachers, who were mostly left to their own devices. The HW with its many years of oral history experience partia...read more
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Profile of South African Secondary-School Teachers' Teaching Quality: Evaluation of Teaching Practices Using an Observation Instrument.
Thelma de Jager,Mattheus Jacobus Coetzee,Ridwan Maulana,Michelle Helms-Lorenz,Wim van de Grift +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the need for quality teaching is reflected in the poor performance of students in international tests and teachers' practices and contextual factors could contribute to substandard quality of teaching.
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Politicising curriculum implementation: The case of primary schools
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of grade three primary school educators in Limpopo, South Africa, was conducted to understand how grade three educators approach the implementation of the most recent Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS).
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The impact of the curriculum change in the teaching and learning of science : a case study in under-resourced schools in Vhembe District
TL;DR: In this paper, acknowledgements and acknowledgements are given for the work presented in this paper: https://github.com/mcclouda/blog/blog.
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The Voice of the Past: Oral History
TL;DR: In this article, Thompson argues that oral history can help to create a truer picture of the past, documenting the lives and feeling of all kinds of people, and that its value has been neglected by conventional historians.
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Oral tradition as history
TL;DR: Oral Traditions as History is an essential addition to the basic literature of African history as mentioned in this paper, and it is indispensable to all students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history who are concerned with the transmission and potential uses of oral material.
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Curriculum Reform in South Africa: A Critical Analysis of Outcomes-based Education.
TL;DR: Since South Africa's first national democratic elections in 1994, the Government of National Unity has issued several curriculum-related reforms intended to democratise education and eliminate inequalities as mentioned in this paper.
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Changing curriculum : studies on outcomes-based education in South Africa
Jonathan D. Jansen,Pam Christie +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an introduction and overview of meaning, motivations and methodologies, concepts, contexts and criticism, inside classrooms, insights and implications, and inside classrooms.
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Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa
Carli Coetzee,Sarah Nuttall +1 more
TL;DR: A collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid, struggle, and guilt as mentioned in this paper.