Johan Wassermann

Professor
Department of Education Management and Policy Studies
University of Pretoria
South Africa

Biography

Johan Wassermann is a historian and history educationist. He lectures History Education to B.Ed. and PGCE students and supervises students at Masters and PhD level. Prof Wassermann was reappointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. The UNESCO publication Oral history education: Dialogue with the past, which contains a chapter co-authored by Prof Wassermann and entitled ‘Violence and History teaching – the personal story of a South African History teacher’, hass also been launched in sep 2016.

Research Intrest

His current research interests include (a) teaching controversial issues in school history (b) history textbooks (c) youth and history education and (d) the experiences of minorities and the minoritised in Colonial Natal.