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Notes from the University of the Free State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2022

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Neil Roos*
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: nroos@ufh.ac.za
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Abstract

Through an ethnographic telling of a curriculum reform project, this short contribution seeks to elucidate developments in the Department of History at the University of the Free State in South Africa. It touches on questions of transformation – both demographic and intellectual, what historical knowledge is valued, decolonization and international engagement, and it ends with some prognoses for the future.

Résumé

Résumé

À travers un récit ethnographique, cette courte contribution entend expliquer les différentes étapes de la réforme des programmes d’enseignement du Département d’histoire de l’Université de l’État libre en Afrique du Sud. Il touche à des questions de transformation que ce soit démographique ou intellectuelle, à la question du choix des connaissances historiques à valoriser ainsi qu’aux thèmes de la décolonisation et de l’engagement international. Cet article se termine par des pronostics pour l’avenir.

Type
History from Africa
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History in Africa , Volume 49 , June 2022 , pp. 361 - 366
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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