Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study
Includes bibliographical references.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
School of Education
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613280880558081 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Da Cruz, Peter |
| author_browse | Da Cruz, Peter |
| author_facet | Da Cruz, Peter |
| author_sort | Da Cruz, Peter |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10414 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:33:37.862Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | School of Education |
| publisherStr | School of Education |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10414 From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study Da Cruz, Peter History Education Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation reveals the enduring willingness of South African history textbooks to legitimate white supremacy. During the apartheid era, a historiographic mythology bearing the stamp of officialdom was propagated by history textbooks. This mythology constituted the era's "white history" - that version of history which serves to legitimate white supremacy in South Africa. Though in specific instances the old mythology has been forsworn, white history survives in the post-aparheid textbooks. The tenets of white history are now delivered individually and indirectly by way of severed heads (primary of secondary sources) that, once recovered and reassembled by student learners, constitute the familiar grand narrative. Two historiographical myths promulgated during apartheid are taken as emblems of white history and adopted for the purposes of study as units of analysis. Their form and location are then traced through one prominent publisher's history textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The demonstrated survival of white history in post-apartheid history education is traced to the white stipulations placed upon the post-apartheid curriculum during the reconciliation process. The contemporary trend of progressivist education enabled the phenomenon pedagogically through emphasis on a zealously learner-centred, interactive approach. 2014-12-28T15:02:21Z 2014-12-28T15:02:21Z 2005 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10414 eng application/pdf School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | History Education Da Cruz, Peter From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| title_full | From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| title_fullStr | From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| title_short | From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study |
| title_sort | from narrative to severed heads the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post apartheid eras a case study |
| topic | History Education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10414 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT dacruzpeter fromnarrativetoseveredheadstheformandlocationofwhitesupremacisthistoryintextbooksoftheapartheidandpostapartheiderasacasestudy |