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What Babanango Valley Environmental Centre can offer History educators and scholars.

What Babanango Valley Environmental Centre can offer History educators and scholars. Practical learning is inspired learning. Improving History at “foundation phase”. We strive to popularize history amongst Primary and Secondary scholars

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What Babanango Valley Environmental Centre can offer History educators and scholars.

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  1. What Babanango Valley Environmental Centre can offer History educators and scholars. Practical learning is inspired learning

  2. Improving History at “foundation phase” We strive to popularize history amongst Primary and Secondary scholars We strive to make history a hands-on, practical discipline whereby scholars go into the field to discover history in its primary source.

  3. Perceptions of History amongst students before and after • 19 of 30 students spoke of History in an uninterested and dispassionate manner before tours • 10 of these 19 students spoke differently subsequent to 2 full day excursions to battlefields and historical places of interest – they seemed positive and enthusiastic about history/history tours

  4. Prior to the tour: Question: How do you feel about history: • “I’m not going to take History as a subject next year, it is boring” (Grade 9 student) • “History is numbers and dates I can never remember ” (Grade 8 student) • “My father said I must not take History; he said accounting and business economics will benefit me more” (Grade 9 student) • “Aaahhh…do we have to do any reading” (Grade 8 student) • “Is it Apartheid history?...I don’t like apartheid history ” (Grade 9 student)

  5. After tour: Question:how do you feel about History after the tour? • “It was fun, it was a great story and I liked the hike up the Isandlwana mountain”. • “The history tour was really interesting, the views from Spirit of emakhosini were great”. • “History can be so much fun especially when you right there where it all happened”. • “I could picture everything happening right in front of me at Rorke’s Drift”.

  6. Popular History Destinations (0-1 hrs) • Isandlwana Battlefield (A-Z) • Rorke’s Drift Battlefield (A-Z) • Fugitives Drift (A-Z) • Battle of Blood River battlefield (Z-B) • Babanango coppermine (local) • Spirit of emakhosini (Z) • Piet Retief’s grave/kwaMatiwane (Z-B) • uMGungundlovu/Dingaanstad (Z) • Prince Imperial monument (A-Z) • Senzangakhona’s grave (Z)

  7. Popular destinations: (1-2 hrs) • Ondini Royal homestead & museum (A-Z) • Talana Battlefield and museum (A-B-Z) • Shakaland (Z) • Cetshwayo’s grave (Z) • Battlefield of Khambula (A-Z) • Battlefield of Hlobane (A-Z) • Battlefield of Ulundi (A-Z) • Battlefield of Nyezane (A-Z)

  8. Battle of Ulundi Prince Imperial monument umGungundlovu

  9. Battle of Blood River

  10. Tertiary phase? = Large scope for University excursions

  11. Babanango - Bringing History back to life Thank you!

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