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Nampombe Saurombe; Isabel Schellnack-Kelly – Education for Information, 2024
History helps society understand its past and its influence on the present and future. South Africa is a country with a unique history, comprising of varying accounts from the different people that make up its 'rainbow' nation. In 2018, South Africa's Department of Basic Education; announced that history would be a compulsory subject for learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Archives, History Instruction, Secondary Education
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Pfuurai Chimbunde; Boitumelo Benjamin Moreeng; Emma Barnett – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Despite extensive research into the function of education in promoting social cohesion, the role of the history curricula in promoting solidarity in South Africa and Zimbabwe remains under-researched. Understanding the history curriculum attempts made at the policy level to promote social cohesion by two postcolonial Sub-Saharan countries could…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Policy
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Awgichew, Sisay; Ademe, Enguday – Cogent Education, 2022
This study examined the role of history education for nation building in Ethiopia, Germany Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, and USA using a comparative research method. Student textbooks and syllabi were the main data sources. Document review was the principal data-gathering tool and the data was analysed qualitatively. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Nationalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries