Vacuum in the Classroom? Recent trends in high school history teaching in Zimbabwe

Teresa Ann Barnes, Munyaradzi Nyakudya, Government Christopher Phiri

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Abstract

Visualize a small, well-used room, piled high with new, old, and positively venerable high school history textbooks-the storeroom of the history department in an urban public high school in Zimbabwe. The storeroom exhibits a stubborn vibrancy in an atmosphere of overall decrepitude and is representative of the state of high school history teaching in Zimbabwe.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication(Re)Constructing Memory
Subtitle of host publicationTextbooks, Identity, Nation, and State
EditorsJames H Williams, Wendy D Bokhorst-Heng
Place of PublicationBoston
PublisherSense Publishers
Pages323-344
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9789463005098
ISBN (Print)9789463005074, 9789463005081
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Armed Struggle
  • Gender Equity
  • History Teacher
  • History Textbook
  • Teacher Training College

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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