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Title:Migration, citizenship and South African history textbooks
Author:Chisholm, LindaISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:South African Historical Journal
Volume:60
Issue:3
Pages:353-374
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:textbooks
history education
citizenship
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470802417441
Abstract:This article examines how the nation and citizenship are addressed in new South African history textbooks with reference to two key issues: changing approaches to textbook analysis, migration and xenophobia. Constructions of the nation take on special significance in this context. The article uses an approach that considers both representational issues as well as the uses of textbooks in classrooms in South Africa. It examines discourses of the nation in nationally distributed texts and explores uses of these and other texts in specific classrooms in urban schools. It argues that the textbooks embrace 'nation-building pluralist' and 'critical skills' or 'model textbook' conceptions. Although new textbooks appear to foreground broader notions of South Africanism incorporating inclusionary, Africanist identities and embody understandings of history textbooks as source-based in order to promote critical thinking, teachers appear to make limited use of them, preferring to rely on their own notes. The article uses a combination of secondary and primary sources to arrive at these conclusions. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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