This comprehensive textbook provides educators with research-based methodologies for teaching History and Geography within the South African educational context. It addresses curriculum requirements while offering practical classroom strategies that promote critical thinking, spatial awareness, and historical consciousness. Essential for education students and practicing teachers seeking to enhance their pedagogical approaches in these vital learning areas.

Contents include the following:

• Teaching controversial issues in History
• Decolonising History in South Africa through local and regional histories
• Cognitive development strategies within the History classroom
• Enhancing History teaching through the integration of technology
• Mapping and maps (including the use of Google maps, GIS and GPS in the Geography classroom)
• Education for sustainable development
• Teaching and learning possibilities, styles and strategies in History and Geography Education
• Indigenous knowledge systems and Africanisation in relation to Geography teaching and learning
• Field work excursions
• Classroom-based performance assessment