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Bertram, Carol – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This paper explores the question of what is powerful knowledge in school history, drawing on an analysis of secondary school history curriculum documents from South Africa and Rwanda. The paper engages with how these official curricula make selections regarding history topics, and how conceptual relationships are structured, and then interrogates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Cultural Differences
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Angier, Kate – London Review of Education, 2017
This study reports the findings of an investigation into young South Africans' knowledge and understanding of their national past derived from narrative accounts of South African history written by 27 university students who had recently completed the national school history curriculum. Analysis of these narratives indicates two fundamental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Knowledge Level, College Students