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The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past
Dissertation (MEd (History Education))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80782 The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past Wassermann, Johannes Michiel u14217440@tuks.co.za Fairbanks, Diane Rose UCTD historical consciousness Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 Dissertation (MEd (History Education))--University of Pretoria, 2021. Older generations have often looked down on their younger counter parts believing that they have little awareness of the sacrifices made by those coming before them and that they have no awareness of the past and no drive to learn about it. However, are these youths really as unaware as the older generations like to think? A country like South Africa has a unique past that was characterised by gross human rights violations under the apartheid regime, specifically during the second half of the 20th century. These born-frees may not have been directly exposed to apartheid but because democratic South Africa is still in its infancy the legacy of those times still impacts them greatly. This qualitative study was informed by the interpretivist paradigm and was underpinned by a relativist ontology and a subjectivist epistemology. This case study made use of the sense of the past of the first-year students enrolled at the Faculty of Education in 2017. A secondary data analysis of two questions from a twelve-question, open-ended written survey collected in 2017 was used to explore the first-year, Faculty of Education students’ historical consciousness as it relates to the past. Convenience sampling was used during the data collection during 2017 when the 700 surveys were collected. After the electronic transcription of these responses. I selected 150 responses from two questions, totalling 300 responses that were analysed. An inductive data analysis method and open coding was used which revealed emergent and dominant themes that were not predetermined. A majority of the responses tended towards negative themes while only some found the past to be better than the present. My study showed that the first-year, Faculty of Education students have a historical consciousness of the past that is orientated from a presentist position. The historical consciousness of these first-year students was dominated by race and used the last forty years of the recent past in its construction. The historical consciousness of these youths was personalised and diversified by a variety of themes and was based on emotional views more than historically factual ones. Furthermore, I illustrate that these future teachers are trapped in the legacy of the past but strive to achieve a bright future so that they can move forward from the past and the effects by which they are burdened. mi2026 Humanities Education MEd (History Education) Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2021-07-12T09:25:19Z 2021-07-12T09:25:19Z 2021-09 2021-07 Dissertation * S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80782 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD historical consciousness Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title | The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title_full | The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title_fullStr | The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title_full_unstemmed | The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title_short | The historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| title_sort | historical consciousness of first year education students as it relates to the past |
| topic | UCTD historical consciousness Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80782 |