Scholarly and values-driven objectives in two South African school history textbooks: an analysis of topics of race and racism

Autor: Morgan, Katalin
Rok vydání: 2010
Předmět:
Sociology & anthropology
History
Education
Geschichte
Bildung und Erziehung
Soziologie
Anthropologie

allgemeine Geschichte
Entwicklungsländersoziologie
Entwicklungssoziologie

Makroebene des Bildungswesens
Unterricht
Didaktik

General History
Macroanalysis of the Education System
Economics of Education
Educational Policy

Sociology of Developing Countries
Developmental Sociology

Curriculum
Teaching
Didactics

Frau
Afrika südlich der Sahara
Diskurs
Geschichtsunterricht
Geschichtsschreibung
Schüler
Republik Südafrika
Afrika
Schulbuch
Inhaltsanalyse
südliches Afrika
historische Analyse
Curriculum
Kritikfähigkeit
Bildungswesen
Rasse
Erzählung
Textanalyse
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Entwicklungsland
Analyse
Bildungsforschung
discourse
analysis
pupil
historical analysis
Africa
school book
historiography
narrative
historical consciousness
education system
Southern Africa
history instruction
educational research
woman
curriculum
critical faculties
Republic of South Africa
content analysis
Africa South of the Sahara
developing country
race
text analysis
empirisch
empirisch-qualitativ
historisch
historical
empirical
qualitative empirical
Zdroj: Historical Social Research, 35, 3, 299-322
Druh dokumentu: journal article<br />Zeitschriftenartikel
ISSN: 0172-6404
DOI: 10.12759/hsr.35.2010.3.299-322
Popis: "This article reports on findings that are part of a larger study of the 10 official (meaning approved by the government education department) grade 11 history textbooks and their respective teacher guides. Using two case studies, selected by maximum variation sampling, and applying exploratory content analysis, it will map out some aims of the history curriculum and assess whether the way each book presents the topics for study is actually achieving those aims. By doing so, the article, will also draw on some international literature on history benchmarks as applied to the South African textbooks. One of the central findings of this study is that the textbooks vary vastly, not only in the way they interpret and apply the curriculum, but also in the way they present the topics and assessments activities, the kind of sources they draw on, the forms of narratives they employ and ultimately in the kind of discourses they provide for the enabling of historical thinking and understanding. By highlighting these stark differences, the article also shows how some textbooks emphasize the value-driven development goals of the curriculum, whereas others tend to concentrate more on its scholarly outcomes." (author's abstract)
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository