Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape
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1996
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Routledge
Abstract
This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position that in first-year teaching the main aim should be to show students that the discipline is always contested and to introduce them to historical argument. The article makes a case for these lecture-room debates as a developmental sequence or series for the induction of first-year UWC students into historical argument in discussion, reading and writing.
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Historical argument, Lecture-room debates, History department, Student learning
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Lalu, P. & Cornell, C. (1996). Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape. South African Historical Journal, 34:1, 196-210