Teaching African History in Schools

Experiences and Perspectives from Africa and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42541-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change

Emerging from the pioneering work of the African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika), Teaching African History in Schools offers an original Africa-centred contribution to international history education research. Edited by AHE-Afrika’s founders and directors, the volume thus addresses a notable gap in this field by showcasing otherwise marginalised scholarship from and about Africa.

Teaching African History in Schools constitutes a unique collection of nine empirical studies, interrogating curriculum and textbook contents, and teachers’ and learners’ voices and experiences as they relate to teaching and learning African history across the continent and beyond. Case studies include South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Cameroon and Tanzania, as well as the UK and Canada.

Contributors are: Denise Bentrovato, Carol Bertram, Jean-Leonard Buhigiro, Annie Fatsereni Chiponda, Raymond Nkwenti Fru, Marshall Tamuka Maposa, Abdul Mohamud, Sabrina Moisan, Reville Nussey, Nancy Rushohora, Johan Wassermann, and Robin Whitburn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bentrovato, Denise

Wassermann, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Denise Bentrovato and Johan Wassermann

1 The Recontextualising Logics of Four Post-Colonial African School History Curriculum Documents: Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe

Carol Bertram

2 The Contradiction between Policy and the Representation of People with Disabilities in Malawian Junior Secondary School History Textbooks

Annie Fatsireni Chiponda

3 The Experiences of Post-Colonial Africa as Represented in South African History Textbooks

Marshall Tamuka Maposa

4 Exploring Silences in History Education: The Case of the Re-Unification of Cameroon in a Francophone Cameroonian History Textbook

Raymond Nkwenti Fru and Johan Wassermann

5 The Challenges of Teaching the Majimaji War in Contemporary Tanzania

Nancy Rushohora

6 Mediating Emotive Knowledge in the Presence of Historical Trauma: Emotions in History Teachers’ Everyday Discourses and Practices around Genocide Education in Rwanda

Denise Bentrovato and Jean-Leonard Buhigiro

7 Emotional Elephants and Other Baggage: The Effects of Oral History on Teachers’ Roles When Engaging with Controversial Issues in the South African Primary-School History Classroom

Reville J. Nussey

8 Race and Apartheid in the History Classroom: Learning in South Africa and England

Robin Whitburn and Abdul Mohamud

9 Engagements with South African Apartheid History through the Lens of Human Rights in Quebec History Classrooms: A Case Study from outside Africa

Sabrina Moisan

10 Concluding Reflections on an Anti-Colonial History Education Project

Johan Wassermann and Denise Bentrovato

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Bentrovato, Ph.D. (2013), is an extraordinary lecturer in History Education at the University of Pretoria and co-director of the African Association for History Education. She is also affiliated to the University of Leuven and the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Goma.

Johan Wassermann, Ph.D. (2005), is Professor of History Education and Head of Department of Humanities Education at the University of Pretoria. He is also co-director of the African Association for History Education.