SA’s history education masks apartheid’s true impact, LSE scholar says
Professor says the way in which the past is taught distances it from young people’s everyday lives
23 January 2025 - 11:33
SA schools ignore the enduring legacies of apartheid in their history curricula, creating an illusion of racial harmony, an academic from the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE) says.
Chana Teeger, a top academic at the International Inequalities Institute, who is the associate professor in the department of methodology, said history taught students lessons that undermined political action aimed at undoing the legacies of the past...
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