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The first broad survey of the content and approaches used to teach world history in secondary schools and colleges in Asia. The collection has been crafted by scholars and educators whose goal was to shed light on the importance of history education and to foster understanding of and between Asian countries. These essays show how the teaching of world history in Asian countries has developed since World War II, with many interesting parallels, including the issue of Eurocentrism, but also distinctive national trends, and considerable changes over time. At a time when many Asian countries are making great strides in education, this study of history education in Asia will be of real interest to educators, history scholars, and policy-makers worldwide.

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World History Teaching in Asia is a timely and illuminating volume that explains how roughly forty percent of humankind learns history. The eight countries represented here all teach, learn, and understand history differently, which goes a long way towards accounting for why people in them see the world today as they do. Every teacher of world history can learn something useful from this book. - J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University Eye opening, engaging, salutary, inspiring. Welcome to the global story of world history teaching, in which Asia quite rightly plays a significant part. World History Teaching in Asia is a must read for anyone who wishes to see and to extend curriculum, teaching and textbook approaches in a global light. - Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Australian National University A wonderful collection of essays that examine the recent past and present of world history teaching in eight countries of East and Southeast Asia. Young people meet the wider world on the screens in their hands, but also in the classroom, and this book will provide readers with insights into what this means for millions of young people. - Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, president, World History Association How fascinating it is to know a new challenging trend of World History education in Asian Countries through this book - by overcoming national-history boundaries and Eurocentrism, and more transregional approaches in Asia. We can identify an intimate collaboration between historians and excellent school-teachers for the creation of World/Global histories from Asian perspectives. - Shigeru AKITA, Osaka University, president of the Asian Association of World Historians This fascinating volume looks at the teaching of world history - a topic of significance and sensitivity for intra-Asian relations - in schools in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, and India. It will enable readers to understand how Asian countries are educating the younger generation through their distinctive interpretations of world history as against a long dominant Eurocentric version of world history. This will shape the citizens of a rising Asia and their future engagement in global governance. - Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto and Education University of Hong Kong Books on world history may have been appearing for centuries, but as a seriously scientific subject, the study of human history as a whole is a very recent one. The ongoing transition away from histories of the world seen from a parochial angle - and that includes continental positions - is a difficult and exciting one that scholars of today and tomorrow must embark upon. World History Teaching in Asia, in timely fashion, provides inspiration in that direction, and reading in one handy volume how official perspectives on humanity's history vary from culture to culture, nation to nation, and people to people, should be a humbling experience for everyone, Asians and non-Asians alike. - Ooi Kee Beng, Penang Institute, Malaysia

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