South Africa: Changing the History Curriculum Is Not Enough If English Always Dominates the Classroom - South African Study

South Africa: Changing the History Curriculum Is Not Enough If English Always Dominates the Classroom - South African Study

Analysis - In many South African classrooms, learners continue to experience the subject of history through the language, concepts and perspectives inherited from colonial traditions. Changes have been made to what children are taught. But the curriculum changes might not be enough to change what children learn in history classrooms.

Changing the history curriculum is not enough if English always dominates the classroom – South African study

Miners in the De Beers diamond mines in Kimberley, Southern Africa, photograph by J.E.M., 1896. Wellcome Collection., CC BYIn many South African classrooms, learners continue to experience the subject of history through the language, concepts and perspectives inherited from colonial traditions. Changes have been made to what children are taught. But the curriculum changes might not be enough to change what children learn in history classrooms. T…

African Educators Call for Curriculum Decolonisation, Warn Against Irrelevant Graduates

KAMPALA — African education experts have called for a fundamental rethink of curriculum design, arguing that education systems across the continent must move beyond importing universal models and begin building curricula rooted in African languages, knowledge systems, communities and realities. The call was made Thursday at the 2nd International Conference on Curriculum Development at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala, where educators and researc…