Elize S van Eeden

Regional History Studies · Spaces & Places

Teaching Local Space and Place in History

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A concise overview of the research focus

Being a part of academia engaging with History in the teaching environment as well, it was accepted as inevitable part of my academic involvement to also engage and participate in, as well as contribute to the methodology and practice of teaching knowledge as gained from research in History per se. Knowledge and experience from years of teaching added value to the ways and angles I have approached themes in FET and also HET curricula in History to compliment an understanding thereof from a local, regional or/and particular spatial perspective.

Board members of the ISHD at the 2019 conference with Pres Susanne Popp

National (SASHT) Board, 2014

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Community engagements

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Conferences and papers

Published articles

Applying the “local” and “regional” in teaching history contexts

2025
K.T. Motumi & E.S. van Eeden
“Reconceptualising Africanising, and its positioning in history teaching and learning through regional and microspatial-planned programmes”
Yesterday&Today, 33, July 2025, pp. 75–95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/2223-0386/2025/n33a5
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2022
K.T. Motumi, Elize S. van Eeden & P.G. Warnich
“Voices from a South African community on why a history ‘all around us’ education matters”
International Journal of Research on History Didactics, History Education, and History Culture. Yearbook of the International Society for History Didactics (JHEC), 43, December 2022, pp. 121–139
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2021
Elize S. van Eeden
“Towards a community engagement turn? Historians debate forms of engagement in 21st century-higher education”
New Contree, December 2021, pp. 142–153
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-5522
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2021
E.S. van Eeden, H. Dippenaar & I. Eloff
“On responses of Higher Education and Training with(in) society through research, teaching and community engagement”
Educational Research for Social Change, 19(26), April 2021
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2013
Elize S. van Eeden
“Informing history students/learners regarding an understanding and experiencing of South Africa’s colonial past from a regional/local context”
Yesterday&Today, 10, December 2013
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2010
Elize S. van Eeden
“Exploring local histories in the use and appreciation of Heritage and History in history curricula”
Yesterday&Today, 5, October 2010, pp. 23–50
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Other History Teaching debates

2018
Elize S van Eeden & Pieter G Warnich
“Reflecting the 2018 History Ministerial Task Team Report on specifically compulsory History in South Africa”
Yesterday & Today, 20, December 2018, pp. 18–45

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2018
Juan Klee & Elize S van Eeden
“Contemplating the approach of RAU’s founders towards radically transforming Afrikaans speaker identity in taking economic responsibility”
Journal for Contemporary History, 43(2), 2018, pp. 78–95

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2017
Elize S van Eeden & P. Warnich (Eds)
“Assessing the colonial historiography of South Africa within the broader Africa, and its visibility in the Higher Education and Training environment”
In Teaching History and Geography in the South African Classroom, Van Schaik, 2017
Listed as in process, 2016.

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2016
Elize S van Eeden
“Thoughts about the historiography of veracity or ‘truthfulness’ in understanding and teaching History in South Africa”
Yesterday & Today, 2016, p. 37

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2014
Elize S van Eeden
“The Miracle Rising® as source for teaching History: Theoretical and practical considerations”
Yesterday & Today, 12, December 2014

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2012
Elize S van Eeden
“The youth and school History – learning from some of the thinking of yesterday in South Africa”
Yesterday & Today, 8, December 2012, pp. 1–24
Available via SciELO South Africa

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2011
Elize S van Eeden
“Die jeug en Geskiedenis – vandag en gister, met verwysing na die Hertzog-era”
Genl JBM Hertzoggedenklesing, Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2011, pp. 1–35
ISBN 978-0-949976-81-9. English version available.

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2010
Elize S van Eeden
“Curriculum transformations in History: Driven by political trends or as a result of empirical outcomes and educational progress? A debate with South Africa as example”
Yearbook Annals, International Society for History Didactics, Wochenschau Verlag, 2010, pp. 25–52

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2010
Elize S van Eeden
“Impressions on publisher’s approach to the revised South African History Curriculum on Globalism and National Narratives in Grade 12 textbooks”
Historia, 55(1), May 2010, pp. 110–124

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2009
L. De Sousa & Elize S van Eeden
“Clear-cut to high-tech: History teaching and learning support material (TSLM) drawing on information and communication technology (ICT)”
Yesterday & Today, 4, October 2009

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2008
Elize S van Eeden
“Transcontinental reflections in the revised South African History Curriculum on globalism and national narratives and its reflection on textbooks”
Yesterday & Today, 56, November 2008, pp. 105–144

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2006
Elize S van Eeden
“The 21st value of History and the history educator revised – a motivational discourse”
New Contree, 51, May 2006, pp. 25–54

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2006
Elize S van Eeden
“The role and focus of the South African Society for History Teaching in decades of educational transformation, 1986–2006”
New Contree, 52, November 2006

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2002
Elize S van Eeden
“Know the past, anticipate the future: Observations on the National Department of Education and the South African History Project’s conference, Rondebosch, 2–5 October 2002”
Historia, 47(2), November 2002, pp. 765–772

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2000
Elize S van Eeden
“Creating a Future for History within South Africa’s Curriculum 2005”
Theory & Research in Social Education, 28(1), 2000, pp. 85–95

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2000
Elize S van Eeden & J. L. van der Walt
“Creating a future for History within South Africa’s Curriculum 2005”
Journal for Theory and Research in Social Education, Birmingham, USA, 28(1), Winter 2000

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2000
Elize S van Eeden
“Christelike praktykmaking in die onderrig van Geskiedenis”
Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap, 36, July 2000

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1998
Elize S van Eeden
“An approach to the teaching of universal global history concepts in world history practice in South Africa”
International World History Bulletin, XIV(1), Spring 1998

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1997
Elize S van Eeden
“History as silent formative force in all careers with specific reference to history training and its career receptiveness”
New Contree, 41, May 1997

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1997
Elize S van Eeden
“Historiographical and methodological trends in the teaching of History in a changing South Africa”
Historia, 42(2), November 1997

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1996
Elize S van Eeden & C. J. Coetzee
“Aspekte van ’n Christelike perspektief op fasette van die geskiedwetenskap in ’n veranderende Suid-Afrika”
Koers, 61(3), September 1996

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1995
Elize S van Eeden
“Beroepsmoontlikhede in, en die bemarking van Geskiedenis – ’n herwaardering van die Geskiedenisonderwyser/dosent se rol”
Gister en Vandag, May 1995

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1994
Elize S van Eeden
“Die stand van tersiêre Geskiedenisonderrig en die behoefte vir dinamiese beroepsgerigte aanpassing”
Gister en Vandag, October 1994

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1994
Elize S van Eeden
“Tersiêre Geskiedeniskurrikula en onderrig: Behoeftes en tendense vir die jare negentig”
Historia, November 1994

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1993
Elize S van Eeden
“Die behoefte aan dinamiese tersiêre Geskiedeniskurrikula tot voordeel van mededissiplines en gunstiger beroepsmoontlikhede”
Koers, June 1993, pp. 195–210

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1993
Elize S van Eeden
“Die koerant as nuttige Geskiedenisonderrigmedium in ’n nuwe kurrikulum”
Gister en Vandag, May 1993

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Book contributions

 

2019
Susanne Popp, Katja Gorbahn and Susan Grindel (Eds)
History Education and (Post-)Colonialism: International Case Studies
Germany: Peter Lang Publishers, published March 2019.
ES van Eeden contributed the chapter “Reviewing South Africa’s colonial historiography and its visibility in Higher Education and Training”, Part 2, pp. 115–151.
ISBN 978-3-631-77425-0 (Print) · E-ISBN 978-3-631-77908-8 (E-PDF)
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2018
E.S. van Eeden & P. Warnich (Eds.)
Teaching and Learning History and Geography in the South African Classroom
Van Schaik Publishers, January 2018.
Book launch: 13 September 2017.
2nd Revision underway, Dec 2026
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2015
W. Hasberg and E. Erdmann (Eds)
History Teacher Education: Global Interrelations
Germany: Wochenschau-Geschichte, 2015.
Chapter contribution by Elize S. van Eeden: “Studying History in South Africa: Reflections of yesterday to face, map and bridging diversity today and tomorrow”, pp. 225–258.
44-page chapter contribution.
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2007
Juta Publishers
Moments in History, Grade 12
Contribution of two chapters: Chapters 3 and 5 on South African history after 1960 in a global context.
Teacher’s guide included. Published December 2007.
Teacher’s guide ISBN 978-0-7021-7376-9 · Learner’s guide ISBN 978-0-7021-7375-2
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1999
Elize S. van Eeden
Didactical Guidelines for Teaching History in a Changing South Africa
Keurkopie, Potchefstroom, November 1999, 450 pp.
ISBN 1-86822-301-95.
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Community engagements

In South Africa it is hardly thinkable that any historian as researcher will never engage with education in some form. To practice what has been researched is part and parcel of one’s working agreement even though, in my case, I have originally been appointed as a researcher of History. four years in the FET educational environment in the 1980’s certainly contributed to my natural obligation to also make practical my research in the teaching environment. So I have been involved in the South African Society for History Teaching since 1992 up to the present. I am honoured to currently fill the position as SASHT Chairperson up to 2017 when a new Executive Board will be elected.

For the sake of the SASHT to be visibly internationally I have also engaged internationally with the International Society of History Didactics (ISD) from 2008. I was approached to be a member of the ISHD Advisory Board (Research Committee vice Chair) from 2010. In 2015 I have been nominated and elected to serve as member of the ISHD General Board until 2017.

Upon invitation I have also reviewed the history of History teaching in South Africa in the South African academy of science’s annual Hertzog Memorial lecture on 21 September 2011.

Prontuit 16 Julie 2018: Segment 1: Verpligte geskiedenis

Angie Motshekga, die minister van basiese onderwys, het onlangs aangekondig geskiedenis gaan as ‘n verpligte vak, tot matriek, geïmplimenteer word. Die beoogde datum hiervoor is 2023. Historici en onderwyskundiges is verdeeld hieroor. Is dit moontlik om in ‘n diverse land soos Suid-Afrika, almal se geskiedenis, gebalanseerd, in ‘n kirrukulum, saam te vat? Die Prontuit-span het met ‘n paar kundiges gaan gesels.

 

Prontuit 16 Julie 2018: Segment 2: Verpligte geskiedenis

In 2015 het ‘n ministeriële taakspan begin met ‘n ondersoek oor hoe om geskiedenis as ‘n verpligte vak vir leerlinge tot graad 12 te implimenteer. Die taakspan se bevindinge is onlangs bekend gemaak, maar talle akademici en onderwyskundiges het hul bedenkinge oor dié plan uitgespreek.

 

Prontuit 16 Julie 2018: Segment 3: Verpligte geskiedenis

Is geskiedenis as verpligte vak tot matriek ‘n wyse ding? Maak die huidige regering dieselfde fout as die NP-regering destyds, wat betref geskiedenis as skoolvak? Die Prontuit-span het by kenners gaan kers opsteek.

 

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Conferences and papers

The following papers were delivered at conferences to complement research and debate in Teaching Local Space and Place in History.

Paper delivered – National
2016
Elize S. van Eeden
“Exploring ways for teaching Regional History on a post graduate level in South Africa”
2nd Regional History Conference, Monte Vista, Krugersdorp, 25 November 2016
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2006
Mary Ntabeni, L. De Sousa & Elize S. van Eeden
“Electronic and practical guidance for interdisciplinary history teaching – A reflection on the local tourist and environmental scene”
South African Society for History Teaching, NWU/DoE Workshop, Emfuleni, 22 June 2006
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Paper delivered – International
2013
Elize S. van Eeden
“Assessing the colonial historiography of South Africa’s regions and its visibility in the Higher Education and Training environment”
International Society for History Didactics Conference, Tutzing, Germany, 16–18 September 2013
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ISHD Conference, Estonia, 2023

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SASHT Limpopo Conference October 2015

Elize at the closing ceremony

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SASHT Executive Members

ISHD Conference Tutzing 17 September 2013

ISHD Conference Tutzing 17 September 2013

SASHT Conference October 2012

SASHT Conference Sept 2012

SASHT Executive members

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