This paper argues that history education is becoming dangerously obsolete, as it does not always relate to the contemporary needs of 21st century learners, who often find history useless and irrelevant to their present situation. This challenge is attributed to, among other reasons, the way history is taught through largely lecture-driven pedagogies that significantly reduced active learner engagement. This article draws on Gadamer’s Hermeneutic philosophy to advocate for dialogue in understanding and interpreting history artifacts using 21st century technologies. Gadamerian Hermeneutics focuses on horizons of understanding through open–ended questioning and answering between past and present rather than transmission to passive audiences. The article argues for the collaborative interpretation of history meanings between teachers and students mediated by a Wiki. The methodology involved a case study of pre-service teachers enrolled at Makerere University in Uganda. The purely qualitative study draws on Gilly Salmon’s five-stage model of online learning. The findings indicate that participants successfully engaged with the first three stages- access and motivation, online socialisation, and information exchange- but less so with stages four and five, knowledge construction and development. The paper concludes by proposing a framework that could be useful to teachers wanting to facilitate history education using modern approaches that are relevant and meaningful to today’s learners.

The topic of this Master´s Thesis is the leadership roles of teacher trainees in The Gambia primary: A case study of two primary schools in region two (2). The purpose of this research is to find out whether leadership responsibilities of teacher trainees is developing their education in teaching practice or if it is affecting the quality of teaching and learning in the primary schools. The data of this research were gathered by using semi-structured interviews. The informants are from two primary schools, Farato-Busumbala Lower Basic and Brufut Basic Cycle, The Gambia College and Regional Education Office. From each school five people were interviewed, three teacher trainees, one mentor and one head teacher, two senior education officers from the regional office and two senior lecturers from Gambia College. The interviews were tape recorded and transcribed. I used content analysis to analyze the preliminary findings. Two themes emerged from the findings as leadership roles assigned to teacher trainees