EDITORIAL

Editorial

Johan Wassermann

Editor-in-Chief

History Education greetings

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of Yesterday & Today. The July 2025 edition has implemented the new editorial policy pioneered by Scielo and ASSAF, which went through numerous scholarly engagements. The editorial board of Yesterday & Today itself discussed the suggested editorial policy on various platforms and is embracing it, especially in aspects related to the submission regarding AI and good governance. This is a new era for Yesterday & Today as it moves with the times.

Regarding contributions, the July 2025 edition of Yesterday & Today carries seven articles.

• In her article, Bronwyn Strydom engages with "Archival Practice and the Historiography of Education in South Africa: An Overview of Government Collections on Education".

• In turn, Laura Efron wrote on "Reflections on coloured identity in the Teacher's League of South Africa during the early 1940s. The introduction of the concept of non-European".

• Christopher Koekemoer tackled "Learning about World War Two: Group work discussions and literary engagement using Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.

• Knysna Motumi and Elize van Eeden argued in their paper for "Reconceptualising Africanising, and its positioning in history teaching and learning through regional and microspatial-planned programmes".

• In their contribution, Bongumenzi Mthethwa and Paul Maluleka challenged "Peripheralisation of some histories in the school history curriculum in the post-apartheid South Africa: The case study of the 1950s Drum generation and their contributions to the liberation struggle."

• Noel Ndumeya, in his article, engaged with "'Greening History Teaching: Justifying the Inclusion of Socio-Environmental History in the South African Further Education and Training History Curriculum."

• The final contribution is by Hedwick Chigwida, Manasa M. Madondo, and Hardy Chitate. It deals with "Reading the African School Curriculum as a Historical Text: Educational Contexts, Policies and Practices in Zimbabwe."

The July edition has, as per usual, a vibrant book review section in which five different publications are reviewed. Getting reviewers is not always easy. Therefore, I want to thank our review editor, Bafana Mpanza, for his work and all the reviewers who contributed to this essential aspect of our journal.

In the "hands-on" section, Wiebe de Groot and Gordon Brookbanks engaged with the ideas of international collaboration amongst prospective history teachers and how to strengthen the history curriculum by reimagining how we teach West Africa in the Grade 10 South African History Curriculum.

Finally, a big thank you to Stefan Meyer and his team, who have expertly put the July 2025 edition together in good time.

Happy reading.