Driving question: How can transforming and decolonising the South African Grade 9 curriculum help us reflect and restore our Africa identity?

Grade: Grade 9

Project Descriptor:

This project focused on revising the curriculum to better reflect the experiences and perspectives of South African communities. It aimed to ensure that the curriculum incorporated diverse narratives and voices, moving beyond the dominant colonial viewpoint. By doing so, the project enabled students to explore and celebrate their African heritage, fostering a deeper connection to their cultural roots through their studies.

Subject integration:

Students advocated for a revision of the curriculum to include broader historical narratives, covering topics like pre-colonial societies, African resistance movements, and contributions of various ethnic groups.

Students explored traditional and contemporary South African art forms, including traditional art, artistic expressions from historical periods, dance, music, and performances.

Students examined the geographic contexts of historical events and their impacts on identity, including topics like migration patterns, environmental changes and GIS (Mapping and Analysis).

Students analyzed texts from diverse South African languages, authors and oral traditions, including indigenous languages, exploring the historical significance of literature, storytelling traditions and poems related to African history and folktales.

View the project exhibitions for each campus below

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