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DESCRIPTION:World history education in South Korea has undergone continuous
  revision\, reflecting shifting historiographical paradigms\, national pri
 orities\, and changing understandings of global interconnection. While cur
 ricular reforms have sought to address critiques of Eurocentrism and to in
 corporate approaches associated with New World History and global history\
 , significant tensions remain between reform discourse and classroom pract
 ice. This panel investigates the current state and challenges of world his
 tory education in South Korea through four interconnected dimensions: nati
 onal curriculum discourse\, textbook narratives\, high-stakes assessment\,
  and scholarly debates shaping reform.\nThe first paper analyzes the norma
 tive goals embedded in national curriculum documents\, identifying endurin
 g tensions between “human history” and “today’s world.” The seco
 nd paper investigates how high school textbooks construct global narrative
 s\, focusing on Eurocentrism and the distribution of historical agency. Th
 e third paper turns to assessment by examining eleven years of College Sch
 olastic Ability Test (CSAT) items\, revealing how high-stakes testing cons
 trains the realization of global history ideals. The fourth paper situates
  these developments within broader scholarly debates\, analyzing how resea
 rchers’ positionalities shape discourse on world history education in Ko
 rea.\nTaken together\, these studies show that world history education in 
 South Korea operates at the intersection of global intellectual trends and
  national institutional structures. By integrating curriculum\, textbook\,
  assessment\, and discourse analysis\, the panel offers a comprehensive ex
 amination of how “the global” is conceptualized\, institutionalized\, 
 and contested in world history. Korea’s experience offers a valuable cas
 e for international scholars seeking to understand how world history educa
 tion is evolving within national education systems in a period shaped by n
 ew debates about globalization.
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LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:World History Education in South Korea: Curriculum\, Textbooks\, As
 sessment\, and Scholarly Debates - Sun Joo Kang\, Hanseok Ko\, Eun Kyung S
 him\, Mimi Lee\, Soeun Lee\, Yongjun Park
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/KEDJAK/
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