Quote (Happypuppy @ Sep 20 2016 12:45am)
So I have two questions:
1. Do you know a lot of history for other countries/regions outside yours? Did they teach it in school or did you learn elsewhere
2. Do you think there should be a standard history curriculum worldwide? It seems to me like kids will only focus on their own countries' history and see events from their countries' perspective.
1. "A bit of everything", I would say. My history classes focused primarily on Belgium of course, but it also focused a lot on the USA, the French Revolution, the UK, Germany, Europe as a whole, the World Wars, Russia, communism, stuff like that.
2. No. Each country is influenced by different parts of history, and you cannot cover
anything that
might be relevant. There are a lot of things that matter to Americans and that bear no relevance to Europeans, for instance. Europeans shouldn't be forced to teach/learn this just because Americans have a use for it. The problem you describe is more of a typically American one, since the education system there has very little focus on whatever goes on outside America. That's a problem for the USA to solve, but the solution shouldn't be involve changing the education systems of other countries.