There were many arguments on the world history in middle school textbook of social studies of the 7th national curriculum. This study is aimed to improve the world history education by analyzing the viewpoints and contents of the North Asia (Nomad) ...
There were many arguments on the world history in middle school textbook of social studies of the 7th national curriculum. This study is aimed to improve the world history education by analyzing the viewpoints and contents of the North Asia (Nomad) history in the middle school textbook to reinforce the education of world history to keep pace with the multi-cultural perspective. There are many problems and mistakes in the middle school text book about the history of nomads because Europeans and Chinese, such as living in the sedentary civilized people, want to ignore the nomads and to make them as barbarians in the world history. Being written the contents of world history in the middle school textbook of social studies following this perspective, the contexts are oriented to the Sino centralism and Euro centralism.
Generally, being regarded nomads as a "the other" by Chinese and Europeans, the viewpoint of the nomads is very limited. and it makes the middle school students to be closed and exclusive to others. Not being balanced the quantity of the descriptions of the nomadic history, it also show the mistakes on the contexts of textbooks. In this study, attempting to overcome this perspectives and develope the new paradigms and concepts of world history, I emphasized the more open perspectives to the nomads as "ours", not as the "others". Therefore, I propose to write the political and cultural role of nomads and the people of Oasis in world history as much as their role, and to change the structure of textbook following as more multi-cultural and multi-regional perspectives. It will be matched the recent new world history teaching focused on respecting the cultures of many minority groups and illuminating prejudice on the other cultures.