The thesis concerns History teaching in South Africa 1966-2006. Focus lies on the usage of History as a tool of power and empowerment. Primary sources for the survey are textbooks, curricula’s and syllabuses. From a theoretical perspective the thesis discusses power, usage of history and pedagogic literature. The survey is done in a qualitative, hermeneutic way in order to find, discuss and explain underlying structures in the collected data. The thesis results show that History teaching in South Africa was based on an idea of a shared historical consciousness, apartheid, which legitimised the hegemony of the white people. The educational system was an important tool of power and empowerment for the government. The apartheid ideology was reproduced by the pedagogic literature. Today History is a part of Social Sciences and the subject has a focus on natural sciences and technology, which results in certain dilemmas educational-wise.

Examensarbetets syfte är att undersöka vilka strategier lärare har för att historieundervisningen skall bli meningsfull i ett mångkulturellt klassrum. Med meningsfull i detta sammanhang menas att även andra länders historia, utöver den svenska historien, belyses i undervisningen. Ur syftet formulerades två frågeställningar, som avsåg undersöka hur historieundervisningens ser ut vad gäller val av innehåll och genomförande i ett mångkulturellt klassrum, samt hur historieundervisningen motiveras av lärare i ett mångkulturellt klassrum. För att finna dessa meningsfulla strategier har ett antal kvalitativa intervjuer med lärare som är verksamma i mångkulturella klasser genomförts. Den tidigare forskningen visar på en monokulturell historieundervisning baserad på historisk tradition, normer, styrdokument, läromedel och lärares inställning. Utgångspunkt har därför varit att lärarna försätts i en situation där undervisningen inte kan bli annat än monokulturell. Undersökningen visar på en historieplanering som främjar den svenska historien. Lärarna motiverar detta genom styrdokument, läromedel och tidsbrist. Vissa lärare har dock utvecklat olika strategier för att skapa en meningsfull historieundervisning för elever med rötter i andra länder. Jämförande anknytningar till andra länder görs genom den svenska historien och traditioner undervisningen. Modersmålsundervisningen åläggs också ett ansvar att låta respektive elever studera sitt ursprungs historia. / This essay examines the strategies teachers may develop in multicultural classrooms in order to make the historical schoolwork meaningful to the students that have their origin in foreign countries. By meaningful this essay points out a teaching in History in multicultural classes that focuses on other countries, besides the history of Sweden. In order to find meaningful strategies a number of interviews have been made with teachers that are active in multicultural classes. The result of the interviews shows that the teachers planning in History promotes the history of Sweden. They motivate this by pointing out the guideline documents, history textbooks and lack of time. But at the same time the teachers have developed strategies to make their teaching in History meaningful to the students with an origin in other countries. This, by making comparing attachments to other countries history, while teaching the history of Sweden. Other strategies, that is often used by the interviewed teachers, is to bring in different cultural traditions to compare and letting the teachers in the subject of mother tongue be responsible for the learning of their native history.

History education builds the foundation of a common past necessary for the formation of group identity. Evaluating History curricula is important because group identity guides people’s political behavior. This Uganda case study demonstrates how different actors have manipulated History education in order to enhance the saliency of ethnic, national, and regional identities. The expansion of nationalized education and the teaching of Ugandan, East African, and African history have contributed to fostering the rise of national consciousness in Uganda. Greater awareness of national identity has promoted national integration while marginalizing non-school educated people.

In this study the guidelines of the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe are investigated in relation to Swedish national curricula, teachers’ perceptions of and students’ work in history, from 1927 to 2002. Inspired by John I Goodlad’s notions of curricula and implementation, the formulation of history is studied. The ideological curricula are analyzed via the international guidelines directed to Swedish history teaching. The formal curricula are examined in national guidelines and also how history is formulated in final examinations and inspectors’ reports. The perceived curricula are studied in teachers’ debates and interviews with experienced teachers. The experiential curricula are examined through looking at students’ choices of topics in final exams, 1,680 titles of students’ individual projects in history and an in-depth analysis of 145 individual projects written between 1969 and 2002. The study shows that the means and goals of history education have been formulated in both different and similar ways within and between curricular levels.  On all the curricular levels studied the history subject has become more internationally oriented. After World War II national history landed in the background and the world history, favored by UNESCO, became dominant in Sweden from the 1950s onwards. Despite the fact that the Council of Europe’s Euro-centrism became more prominent in the 1994 syllabus in history, students still preferred world history over European history. International and national guidelines also stressed the value of paying heed to marginalized groups, local cultural heritage and contemporary history.  These orientations were also represented in the teachers’ views of history teaching and in the students’ work in history. The results of the study suggest that the implementation of the international guidelines were more than a top-down process. During the entire period studied, guidelines have been formulated and transacted, but also reinterpreted and in some cases, ignored. Teachers and students seem to have been co-creators in the transformation of history education. History as a subject, according to the study, encompassed an ever expanding geographical area and more and more perspectives. Not least on the student level, the subject was formulated and dealt with in manifold ways, often oriented towards contemporary world history. Students’ history had great similarities with the international notion of history education in the service of mankind. Students expressed a rejection of war, an understanding of minorities and a wish to safeguard the local cultural heritage. Even if there were exceptions, students’ history appears to have been influenced by international understanding during a century filled with conflicts. / History Beyond Borders: The International History Textbook Revision, 1919–2009

This thesis is intended to respond to the extent to which South African textbooks on the subject of history is linked to the governmental policy documents and whether they are producing and reproducing national identity. The two textbooks are aimed at students in grade 10. Both books were produced in 2008 but published by different publishers. The essay is based on Norman Faircloughs critical discourse theory which has been supplemented by Michael Billings theory Banal Nationalism, which assumes that it is the national words that remind us daily of our homeland that is producing and reproducing national identity.   The survey shows that both textbooks are closely tied to the government policy document for the teaching of history. The textbooks refer to the policy, both explicitly and implicitly. The two textbooks reproduce a common national identity in South Africa based on the discussions taking place in society. In other words, the textbooks have been influenced by Rainbowism and African Renaissance. The books lift up both the idea of a reconciled South Africa and a proud nation in the continent of Africa. The texts and exercises in the books contribute to the production of national identity by reminding students that they can be proud to be South African in a unique multicultural nation. The analysis also shows that the textbooks strive to include all people in the national community regardless of ethnicity.

In this study the guidelines of the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe are investigated in relation to Swedish national curricula, teachers’ perceptions of and students’ work in history, from 1927 to 2002. Inspired by John I Goodlad’s notions of curricula and implementation, the formulation of history is studied. The ideological curricula are analyzed via the international guidelines directed to Swedish history teaching. The formal curricula are examined in national guidelines and also how history is formulated in final examinations and inspectors’ reports. The perceived curricula are studied in teachers’ debates and interviews with experienced teachers. The experiential curricula are examined through looking at students’ choices of topics in final exams, 1,680 titles of students’ individual projects in history and an in-depth analysis of 145 individual projects written between 1969 and 2002. The study shows that the means and goals of history education have been formulated in both different and similar ways within and between curricular levels.  On all the curricular levels studied the history subject has become more internationally oriented. After World War II national history landed in the background and the world history, favored by UNESCO, became dominant in Sweden from the 1950s onwards. Despite the fact that the Council of Europe’s Euro-centrism became more prominent in the 1994 syllabus in history, students still preferred world history over European history. International and national guidelines also stressed the value of paying heed to marginalized groups, local cultural heritage and contemporary history.  These orientations were also represented in the teachers’ views of history teaching and in the students’ work in history. The results of the study suggest that the implementation of the international guidelines were more than a top-down process. During the entire period studied, guidelines have been formulated and transacted, but also reinterpreted and in some cases, ignored. Teachers and students seem to have been co-creators in the transformation of history education. History as a subject, according to the study, encompassed an ever expanding geographical area and more and more perspectives. Not least on the student level, the subject was formulated and dealt with in manifold ways, often oriented towards contemporary world history. Students’ history had great similarities with the international notion of history education in the service of mankind. Students expressed a rejection of war, an understanding of minorities and a wish to safeguard the local cultural heritage. Even if there were exceptions, students’ history appears to have been influenced by international understanding during a century filled with conflicts. / History Beyond Borders: The International History Textbook Revision, 1919–2009

A proposta desta pesquisa é compreender um ator e um lugar centrais para a educação: o professor e a sala de aula de História. Entendo que o professor trabalha com um regime de verdade específico que denomino verdade histórico-didática, cuja natureza reside no caráter relacional que congrega o professor (enquanto indivíduo que significa a sua prática a partir de seus valores), seus alunos (com seus interesses, desejos e saberes) e o conhecimento histórico (validado tanto pelo saber historiográfico de referência, quanto pela experiência do professor). Visando compreender essa relação, faço uso das formulações da retórica, desde os clássicos antigos até seus intérpretes modernos, com Reboul (1998), Perelman e Olbrechts-Tyteca (2005) e Meyer (1998, 2007 e 2013). Estas reflexões permitem pensar a retórica simultaneamente como ferramenta de análise e como um referencial teórico projetivo, refletindo sobre um tipo-ideal de docente, que defino como professor-orador. Defendo que pensar o professor como um orador significa situá-lo na delicada intersecção das provas do discurso, conforme Aristóteles constituiu em sua Retórica: o ethos, o pathos e o logos. O ethos é o orador, a forma como ele constitui e trabalha sobre uma projeção de si, dotada de autoridade, e a forma como essa imagem é apropriada pelo auditório. O pathos significa reconhecer que o outro para quem o discurso se dirige (o auditório) possui valores, crenças, significados e emoções, que devem ser levados em conta. O logos é o conhecimento histórico, ou a própria verdade histórico-didática entendida de forma relacional com as outras provas do discurso. Além disso, a dimensão de prova (pisteis) da retórica é cara ao discurso histórico, relacionando a argumentatividade com a comprovação em uma dimensão ética. O professor-orador é um indivíduo consciente de seu lugar neste delicado equilíbrio. A fim de cercar teoricamente esta questão, além dos referenciais da retórica, reflito sobre os seguintes caminhos: 1) a concepção de História enquanto produtora de narrativas sobre o passado, relacionadas à práticas científicas e a um lugar social (CERTEAU, 2008); 2) a noção de transposição didática (CHEVALLARD, 1997), que permite identificar um trânsito entre os saberes históricos produzidos na academia, os saberes preparados visando o ensino e os saberes efetivamente ensinados, em cada sala de aula específica, mediados por decisões epistemológicas, culturais e políticas; 3) a experiência acumulada do professor enquanto uma das práticas de validação da verdade histórico-didática, juntamente com os discursos provenientes da historiografia e do campo da educação, que lhe autoriza ou refreia de determinadas decisões. Ao buscar compreender estas premissas em ação, analiso diretamente aulas de cinco professores e professoras de História, coletando dados a partir de observações de aulas, entrevistas, questionários respondidos pelos estudantes e registro de materiais utilizados em aula, e compreendendo um conjunto variado de observações realizadas como puramente retóricas, já que lançam mão de expedientes que visam negociar as distâncias entre o conhecimento histórico e os alunos. Neste processo, os professores e professoras projetam-se como adultos de referência, articulam valores e intencionalidades às suas práticas, dispõem suas aulas em formas estruturadas, animadas por problematicidades e permeadas por formas argumentativas retóricas. Na relação com os estudantes, ressalta-se a importância da palavra e os significados dos estudantes agregando-se nas narrativas construídas nas aulas. / The purpose of this research is comprehending an actor and a place as central for education: the teacher and the History classroom. I understand that the teacher works with an specific truth regime which I nominate historical-didactic truth, whose nature stays in the relational character which congregates the teacher (as an individual which signifies his practice from his values), his students (with their interests, desires, and knowledge) and the historical knowledge (validated both by the historiographic knowledge of reference and the teacher’s own experience). Aiming to comprehend this relation, I make use of the formulations of the rhetoric, from the ancient classical ones to their modern interpreters, as Reboul (1998), Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2005) and Meyer (1998, 2007 e 2013). Such reflections allow us to think the rhetoric simultaneously as a tool of analysis and as a projective theoretical referential, reflecting about an ideal-type of teacher, which I define as an orator-teacher. I defend that thinking the teacher as an orator means to situate him in the delicate intersection of the discourse proves, as Aristotle constituted in is Rhetoric: the ethos, the pathos and the logos. The ethos is the orator, the way he constitutes and works on a projection of the self, gifted of authority, and the way this image is appropriated by the auditorium. The pathos means to recognize that the other to whom the discourse is addressed (the auditorium) have values, beliefs, meanings and emotions, which must to be taken in consideration. The logos is the historical knowledge, or the historical-didactic truth itself understood as a relational form with the other proves of the discourse. Moreover, the dimension of the prove (pisteis) of the rhetoric is pricey to the historical discourse, relating the argumentativity to the evidence in an ethical dimension. The orator-teacher is an individual aware of his place in this delicate balance. In order to theoretically search this issue, besides the references of the rhetoric, I reflect about the following ways: 1) the conception of History as a producer of narratives about the past, related to scientific practices and to a social place (CERTEAU, 2008); 2) the notion of didactic transposition (CHEVALLARD, 1997), which allows us to identify a movement within the historical knowledge produced in the academy, the prepared knowledge aiming the teaching process and the effectively taught knowledge, in each specific classroom, brokered by epistemological, cultural and political decisions; 3) the teacher’s accumulated experience as one of the practices of validation of the historical-didactic truth, with the discourses coming from historiography and from the educational field, which allows him or restrains him from some decisions. In order to comprehend these premises in action, I directly analyze classes of five History teachers (men and women), collecting data from classroom observations, interviews, questionnaires answered by students and recording materials used in class, and understanding a varied set of observations made as purely rhetorical, once they make use of expedients which aim to negotiate the distances between the historical knowledge and the students. In this process, teachers project themselves as adults of reference, articulate values and intentionalities to their practices, arrange their classes in structured forms, animated by problematicities and permeated by rhetorical argumentative forms. In the relationship with the students, the importance of the word and the meanings of the students is emphasized in the narratives built in the classrooms.

A presente pesquisa aborda a temática do uso de jogos na educação básica. Especificamente, trata dos RPGs (role-playing games), jogos de interpretação de personagem, como um recurso para estimular a iniciação científica no ensino de história. A partir da prática do RPG, buscou-se evidenciar momentos de pesquisa a partir de situações-problema apresentadas durante as sessões, bem como a partir da imersão dentro do cenário de jogo. Ao permitir uma simulação, que também é uma imaginação, do passado e articulando saberes prévios com a formação de conceitos formais do conhecimento histórico, o RPG se torna um mecanismo útil para as aprendizagens significativas em história – dentre as quais se destacam a concepção de agência histórica e o aprendizado de situações históricas: contextos, estruturas e conjunturas. As práticas foram conduzidas com alunos e alunas do sétimo ano do ensino fundamental da EMEF Paulo VI – Canoas-RS, a partir da formação de um grupo focal cujos encontros se deram dentro do espaço escolar no turno contrário às aulas regulares. / This research addresses the use of role-playing games as a resource to stimulate a scientific initation on the learning process of the history teaching action. From the practical use of RPGs and the student immersion in the game scenery, one seeks to shine a light upon research moments within the roleplaying sessions. Through simulation and creation upon the thematic past of the sessions and articulations with previous knowledge of the student and the formal learnings of historiographic concepts, RPG becomes an useful mechanism for meaningful History experiences - for example, learning the historic agency concept or the historical situations framework: context, structure and conjuncture. The practical applications of our theory were experimented with students of the seventh grade of brazilian elementary school at EMEF Paulo VI - Canoas-RS, who formed a focal group whose meetings took place within the school space after the regular class' shift.

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The purpose of the following essay is to study students with non-European backgrounds view of the multicultural perspective in history teaching at the upper secondary school in Sweden. To study this, student interviews have been made and the study has also answered how the students perceive the concept of multiculturalism and how they consider their teachers to take into account the students' ethnic backgrounds in the history teaching. The study results show that multiculturalism is a concept that can be defined in different ways, and that students believe that the history teaching has a European and Western perspective. Students want teachers to take more account of different ethnicities in teaching, and that history teaching not should be so generalizing as it is.