Guest lecture with Dr. Denise Bentrovato

(Re)framing school history in a post(-)colonial, globalized world: Insights from empirical research in and on Africa.

The lecture draws on multi-year, cross-national research conducted in and on Africa to reflect on the interplay of the local, national and global, and on specific applications of such perspectives in history education and their related tensions.

The lecture, embedded in heated debates on decolonising education, will frame this reflection within a discussion of representations of the global past and the place of Africa and local communities in this past, and of a related double-challenge of asserting Africa’s place in world history and building new nations through history education.

Discussants:

Professor Anders Breidlid, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Dr. Constance Khupe, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Denise Bentrovato (PhD History, MA Conflict Resolution) is a Senior Researcher and Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Humanities Education at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a Research Fellow in the History Department at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Dr. Bentrovato currently serves as the Co-Director of the African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika) and the President of the International Research Association for History and Social Sciences Education (IRAHSSE).

Her research experience combines interests in education, memory politics, and identity and citizenship formation, and focuses on (post-)colonial and (post-)conflict societies in Africa and the broader Global South. Throughout her career, she has worked both in academia and for international organisations and NGOs in Africa and Europe, including UNESCO. 

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