I am interested in history education, and the ways in which it shapes young peoples’ identity, sense of belonging, and political attitudes. I work mostly in South Africa, where I research how apartheid and colonialism are taught.
Natasha Robinson
Postdoctoral Researcher
About me
Research
Publications
- Robinson, N. (2025). Equipping Students with a Usable Past in Post-Apartheid South Africa. In K. Bickmore (Ed.). Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace: Teaching Strategies from around the World (pp. 25–40). London,: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Robinson, N (2024), Using Holocaust Education as a “Bridge” to Learning about Apartheid in a South African History Classroom: The Development of “Interpretive Frames” through Comparative Histories, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Fall 2024, Pages 183–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcae021
- Robinson, N. (2024). Not White Enough, Not Biko Black Enough: The Othering of Coloured Identity in the South African History Classroom. In: Bouyat, J., Le Bellec, A., Puygrenier, L. (eds) States and the Making of Others. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59659-9_3
- Robinson, N (2024), Who wants a reparative future? Social mobility beliefs, and young South African’s narrative positioning within the historic moral community. Futures.
- Robinson, N; Kerswill, N (2023), “Myth” or “construct”? What students are learning about race in the South African history classroom. Yesterday and Today.
- Dryden-Peterson, S; Robinson, N, (2023) Time, Source, and Responsibility: Understanding changing uses of the past in ‘postconflict’ South African history teaching, 1998 and 2019. Compare.
- Mills, D; Tindana, P; Chatio, S; Robinson, N; Branford, A; Inouye, K; Agboraw, I; Kingori, P (2023), From ‘Publish or Perish’ to Publish and Perish: African Academic Publishing and ‘Predatory’ Journals. African Minds.
- Robinson, N. (2022) Conceptualising historical legacies for transitional justice history education in postcolonial societies. History Education and Research Journal. Vol. 19(1). DOI: 10.14324/HERJ.19.1.10
- Mills, D; Robinson, N, Democratising publishing or preying on researchers? Geographies of credibility and visibility in a global research economy. (2021). Science as Culture.
- Kim, J; Robinson, N; Harma, J; Jeffery, D; Rose, P; Woldehanna, T. (2021) Misalignment of policy priorities and financing for early childhood education: Evidence from Ethiopia, Liberia, and Mainland Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Research
- Mills, D; Branford, A; Inouye, K; Robinson, N; Kingori, P. (2021), ‘Fake’ Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, ‘Predatory’ Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem. Journal of African Cultural Studies.
- Robinson (2021), Learning from the past: The role of emotion in deflecting conversations about privilege and power in South African schools, in Intentions, Power, and Accidents; Shifting the critique of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) to an emic perspective on education for global citizenship, Tertium Comparationis. Jahrgang 26 Ausgabe 2, Seiten: 116-121
- Robinson (2021), ‘Developing Historical Consciousness for Social Cohesion: How South African students learn to construct the relationship between past and present’, in Historical Justice and History Education. Palgrave.
Funded Research Projects
Belonging To The Difficult Past: The potential of history education to foster positive belonging among racially minoritized youth
1st January 2024 - 31st December 2026