Contending Definitions of World History
Which One Should We Choose for the Classroom?
Contending Definitions of World History
Which One Should We Choose for the Classroom?
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by Ross Dunn The American public in general probably has a fairly hazy perception of world history in the schools, regarding it as social education about places on the globe that are not the United States. However, people who decide what the intellectual scope, sequencing, and content of world history...
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for Teaching and Learning by Fred Czarra and Heidi Roupp Teaching a true global world history in our schools remains one of the most difficult challenges facing American education. Undergraduate training in world history for future social studies teachers is weak in many teacher training colleges and universities.
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to World History by Andrew F. Smith Fifteen years ago, few high school students elected to take world history courses. Since then many states and school districts have instituted requirements for world history. Teaching world history with a global perspective remains one of the most difficult challenges facing social studies...
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There are a variety of “classics available in paperback such as Edward Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, and Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of of History. Some other lesser known works, with a non-western point of view, are Ibn Khaldun, An Arab Philosophy of History...
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Most of these books cover large sweeps of history and interactions of cultures and ideas across geographical regions. Many present divergent points of view or new insights into history. As an example of the divergence of historical perspective read Andre Gunder Frank’s, ReOrient as an opposing bookend to David Landis...
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World History Association (WHA)
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Readings of Primary and Secondary Sources
Kevin Reilly. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. (Bedford/St. Martins, 1998)
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Association (WHA) The World History Association promotes scholarship and teaching of a global conceptualization of world history. Since its founding in 1982, the WHA has provided its membership of secondary, college and university faculty the best of current world history research...
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Impact And Legacies
What do these people have in common?
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by Linda K. Brown When teachers of World History provide students with opportunities to write research papers, getting students to use electronic resources is no problem. Yet there is the problem of making certain that students are using websites that provide reliable, scholarly information...
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