South African History Project

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The South African History Project (2001-2004) was established and initiated by Professor

post-apartheid South Africa
.

Origin and development

The South African History Project came to be established as a result of a report presented by the Working Group on Values,

educationists and academics to advise the government on how to strengthen history teaching in South African schools
.

This led to the establishment of the History and Archaeology Panel in 2000, under the chairpersonship of the African novelist and academic, Professor Njabulo Ndebele, and participation of prominent academics like Dr Pallo Jordan,[a] Professor André Odendaal, Professor Bill Nasson and others which led to the founding of the South African History Project in August 2001 at the Old Fort (now Constitution Hill) in Johannesburg. The project was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York until June 2004. One of the sources of inspiration was a project, conducted between South African and Danish historians and history educationalists in 1999/2000: The History for Democracy Project.

The South African History Project was established to promote and enhance the quality and status of the learning and teaching of history in schools and in

history books
and materials for schools and to initiate activities that will resurrect interest in the study of history by young people. The Curriculum Review process resultant of these recommendations was led by Dr Linda Chisholm.

The South African History Project formed national and provincial networks, communication and advocacy initiatives and organised roundtables in all provinces, in rural and urban areas with local civic organisations, teacher organisations,

the Gandhi family); Dr Sifiso Ndlovu; Dr Nomathamsanqa Tisani; Professor Albert Grundlingh; Professor Jeff Guy; Professor Jeff Pieres; archaeologist Amanda Esterhuysen; and a teacher, Lindi Nqonji. Amongst its various strategic achievements, the project conducted national audits of history books used in schools and of archaeologists and historians in South Africa. Some of the key publications include an update of the UNESCO General History of Africa, and the 6-volume series Turning Points in South African History in collaboration with the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, winner of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2008.[2] It has also worked with the Parliamentary Millennium Project on perspectives on and of Africa, and with the NGO South African History Online (SAHO). Important publications included the teacher's guides for the Unesco Africa History volumes, distributed to all schools and libraries and the "Towards New Histories for South Africa[3]" publication
edited by Dr Shamil Jeppie.

The work of this project has now become fully integrated into the

.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Jordan does not have a doctoral degree, nor is he an academic, but he can be considered an intellectual.[1]

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