Many world history teachers in the US have tried to pluralize world history teaching from a more global perspective. This research focuses on how American teachers with an intention to change their current history teaching select Asian history topics and challenge traditional Western knowledge on Asia. I review world history scholarship to see how…

The present case study explores the reception of American War literature among Vietnamese high-school students. In April and May 2020, seventy-seven seventeen-year-old students from "Lê H?ng Phong High School for the Gifted" (H? Chí Minh City) participated in this study by answering Google form surveys about literary texts that form part…

As youth's national identity or adopting the nation as the identity is a public concern, arranging them to study in school and know about national culture and history is a supposed strategy. However, critics contend that the study is boring, unintellectual, and thus detrimental. To resolve the controversy over the study, this empirical study…

Framed by critical global citizenship education (GCE), the study focused on secondary school teachers' practices of GCE and explored the position of GCE in conflict-affected South Korea. The findings demonstrate the nexus of constraint and possibility of GCE in South Korea, highlighting how the country's history of division and ongoing,…

This study proposed a cognitive-based game mechanism based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive processing dimensions. Moreover, a mobile Chinese history educational game, Void Broken: The Qing Dynasty, was developed based on the cognitive-based game mechanism to promote learners' cognitive thinking in history learning. This empirical…

Using a multiple case study design, I examine how public high school students (n = 17) make sense of narratives about defining events with which they have specific heritage connections. Focusing on 3 groups of students (Hmong, Chinese, and Jewish) studying 3 heritage events (respectively, the Vietnam War, Modern China, and the Holocaust), this…

How have U.S. high school textbook depictions of World War II and Vietnam changed since the 1970s? We examined 102 textbooks published from 1970 to 2009 to see how they treated U.S. involvement in World War II and Vietnam. Our content analysis of high school history textbooks finds that U.S. textbooks increasingly focus on the personal experiences…

The following research delves into China's philosophies and education system in antiquity and surrounding context, the development and exchange of ideas between the Middle Kingdom, Europe and the West. This research is intended to be of use to teachers in training including study of China in social studies classes, English and Chinese language…