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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in New Zealand and studied history at school. We didn't try and learn everything. We learnt in topics, which has since been criticized as being too eurocentric and has been changed again.

I guess the objective was the study of history and teaching us to write, not trying to do a brief overview of everything.  It was more like the approach at university where you concentrate on focused topics in a lot of depth.

In the equivalent of 10th grade I remember studying about the first NZ Labour Government (the Depression, social welfare and NZ in WWII), FDR and the New Deal in the US, Suharto and Sukarno in Indonesia, Treaties involving NZ and its place in the Pacific, the development of the UN, and MLK and the US civil rights movement (Brown vs the Board of Education etc). We did get some US history but certainly nothing about the American Revolution. We probably learned a lot more about the Depression in the US, the New Deal and FDR than my kids did here in APUSH. We didn't learn much about pre colonial and colonial NZ, which is what they've changed since.

The next year (junior year equivalent) the whole curriculum was based around Nationalism, and included the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the unification of Italy and Germany, and the origins of WWI and WWII (but not much about what happened after the outbreak of those wars). Other schools could opt to teach Imperialism - I don't know what that covered.

Senior year, the first half was Elizabeth I and the Stuart kings through to James II, covering politics, religion, and the English civil war. The second half of the year was the French Revolution.

These courses were electives not compulsory. There was no concept of a World History course.

However, they did instill a love of history and I did double major in history at university, and have continued to try and learn the history of places I've lived in or visited since.

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