Revision and Issues of the High School World History Curriculum - From the 6th to 2015 Curriculums -

Abstract

This paper is a comparative study of the major characteristics of world history revised curriculum of the high school that has been revised over the past decade. The world history curriculums for 2007/2009 and for 2011 mirrored the Global History perspective. And the major issues are overcoming European centrism, Sinocentrism and how diverse cultures have shaped themselves through the interaction and exchange among diverse cultures and regions. The problem is that it was influenced by the instructional course of study for world history B in Japan’s high school 1999th edition.BR In the case of Japan, there are much a systematic study of the world of the region, but we have not done enough research on that subject. The merit of the curriculum for 2015 is to classify the sections of world history into the East Asian region, India-the West Asian region, Europe-America region, and to understand how the culture has shaped its contents and features from ancient times to the 19th century. It is evident that this approach has also the defects of not showing the mutual exchanges and influence between the respective regions in the same period. This is expected to be resolved through fundamental and detailed research on various regions.