We propose a new framework for understanding post-conflict history education based on ethnographic fieldwork in the same South African school two decades apart. We explore how and why teachers engage with the legacies of conflict in 1998 and 2019 by investigating how they draw boundaries around 1) time, what the conflict period is and how stark…

A course designed to acquaint undergraduates with the problems of interpreting historical evidence is described. (DE)

Discussion of history instruction, courses, and curricula at the Open University which emphasizes (1) methods and principles and (2) relating history to other academic disciplines. (ND)

These courses, two of 16 sequential courses comprising phase one of a part-time Bachelor of Arts degree program in Australian Studies, examine the establishment and development of early Australian colonial society and introduce students to the problems of reconstructing the history of the penal colony period. They are designed for independent…