Concluding Reflections on an Anti-Colonial History Education Project

Johan Wassermann; Denise Bentrovato

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Pages:: 209–217

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445710_011

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Abstract

This concluding chapter fleshes out and reflects on the positionality, premises and vision underpinning this book project and the journey undertaken towards its materialisation. It thereby also retraces some of the specific contributions made by each author and their respective chapters to the goals and visions embodied in this collective project. Conceived of as a fundamentally anti-colonial and decolonising act, this project is presented as seeking to counter the coloniality of knowledge under which history education currently exists by showcasing scholarship about, from and for Africa. It is regarded as a response to the large-scale marginalisation of Afrocentric history educationists and their knowledge from the spaces in which history education knowledge is produced, a condition which both alienates those excluded and makes little sense in an African context that is hardly ever considered.

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Teaching African History in Schools

Experiences and Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Series: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change, Volume: 10

Cover Teaching African History in Schools

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004445710

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 30 Oct 2020

Subjects
- African Studies
  - History
- Education

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Introduction

Chapter 1 The Recontextualising Logics of Four Post-Colonial African School History Curriculum Documents

Chapter 2 The Contradiction between Policy and the Representation of People with Disabilities in Malawian Junior Secondary School History Textbooks

Chapter 3 The Experiences of Post-Colonial Africa as Represented in South African History Textbooks

Chapter 4 Exploring Silences in History Education

Chapter 5 The Challenges of Teaching the Majimaji War in Contemporary Tanzania

Chapter 6 Mediating Emotive Knowledge in the Presence of Historical Trauma

Chapter 7 Emotional Elephants and Other Baggage

Chapter 8 Race and Apartheid in the History Classroom

Chapter 9 Engagements with South African Apartheid History through the Lens of Human Rights in Quebec History Classrooms

Chapter 10 Concluding Reflections on an Anti-Colonial History Education Project

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