How Sweden teaches American history reveals gaps in global curriculum design
A Swedish university's 28-year effort to teach American history exposes a persistent challenge: finding textbooks and materials suited to non-American classrooms. The study suggests educational publishers and curriculum designers are missing a significant international market opportunity, while universities abroad struggle to localize content for students with different historical contexts.
Originaltitel: The Significance of Location: Practicing American History in Sweden
<p>This article deals with the teaching of American history in Sweden. It focuses on developments at Uppsala University, where a course in American history has been taught since 1996, as a part of our American studies sequence. Placing it within the larger context of doing American studies in Sweden, it traces the development of the course discusses important topics taught and the challenges of finding suitable reading materials for students enrolled in the course.</p>