World History Education around the World

Abstract

Professor Ross E. Dunn, the American historian, surveys in this article the history of the “World History” as a component of curricula in universities, colleges, and precollegiate schools in several parts of the world. The author argues that teachers and scholars in the United States pioneered this field and that American models of teaching the subject contributed to roused interest in many other countries. In the late three decades, institutions, centers, and programs dedicated to the advancement of world history have proliferated, especially in Europe and East Asia more than in other parts of Asia or in Af-rica. The author contends that world history education is more advanced to-day in Europe and East Asia more than it is in the United States.