ERIC Number: EJ1202883
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
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The Big History Project and Colonizing Knowledges in World History Curriculum
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v51 n1 p1-20 2019
This empirical study uses content and frequency analysis to investigate how the Big History Project (BHP) online curriculum represents different racial and cultural groups within its units fusing science and history. The prevalence of a Western Civilizations perspective in curricula offers a challenging irony: that world history could be culturally irrelevant, or inaccurate, for non-Europeans. Drawing on Indigenous, postcolonial and critical social studies scholarship, this study offers a new framework identifying five attributes of a Eurocentric World History curriculum and uses it to analyze BHP. Findings reveal that BHP materials promote Eurocentrism through its content and source selections, across all five attributes of the framework. Implications for curriculum and pedagogy in the social and natural sciences are discussed.
Descriptors: History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, World History, Culture, Bias, Secondary School Curriculum, Ethnocentrism, STEM Education, Electronic Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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