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First-year History Education students’ personal narratives of the history of South Africa
The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2018-11-27 , DOI: 10.4102/td.v14i2.585
Johan Wassermann

This article is based on a free writing exercise given to 31 first-year History Education students in which they were, asked to write ‘The history of South Africa according to me’. Using narrative enquiry, the stories of the students, who all had History at school up to their final year, were analysed. What emerged was that South Africa as a political entity is focalised as a place where apartheid took place. Post-apartheid South Africa by contrast is narrated as a free and democratic place. It is focalised by the majority of students as a strong well-established country – a leading example to other nations. In line with this, the vast majority of students tended to limit their account of the history of South Africa to the period prior to the achievement of democracy in 1994. The personal narratives spoke about race being the dominant factor in their historical discourses.

中文翻译:

历史教育一年级学生对南非历史的个人叙述

本文基于对31名第一年的历史教育学生的免费写作练习,他们被要求写“根据我的南非历史”。通过叙述性询问,分析了学生的故事,这些学生直到上学年都在学校学习过历史。结果是,南非作为一个政治实体被集中在发生种族隔离的地方。相比之下,种族隔离后的南非被描述为一个自由民主的地方。多数学生都把它视为一个强大的有名的国家,这是其他国家的典范。有鉴于此,绝大多数学生倾向于将对南非历史的叙述限制在1994年实现民主之前的时期。
更新日期:2018-11-27
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