Early in 2015, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) established the HistoryMinisterial Task Team (HMTT) to investigate the proposed implementation of History as a compulsory subject in schools. This roundtable draws on the experience and expertise of teaching practitioners as well as the chairperson of the Ministerial Task Team, Sifiso Ndlovu to contemplate the political context and pedagogical implications of this proposal. This roundtable discussion is based on presentations of a plenary session at the Twnety-Sixth Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, which took place at Wits University in June 2017. The responses below explore questions around the imbalanced rhetoric of nation-building and history teaching, the current school history curriculum, the limitations and constraints of making History compulsory, innovative ways to change the current curriculum, and whether such a shift will indeed address issues of xenophobia and the lack of nationhood and social cohesion in South Africa as anticipated by the then Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga.

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在学校教授历史：捕获的课程/政治教学法？

2015 年初，基础教育部 (DBE) 成立了历史部级任务组 (HMTT)，以调查将历史作为学校必修课的拟议实施情况。该圆桌会议借鉴了教学从业者的经验和专业知识以及部长级任务组主席 Sifiso Ndlovu 来思考该提案的政治背景和教学意义。本次圆桌讨论基于 2017 年 6 月在威茨大学举行的南部非洲历史学会第 20-6 届双年会议全体会议的发言。以下答复探讨了围绕国家建设和历史的不平衡修辞的问题教学，当前的学校历史课程，历史必修课的局限性和约束，