世界史:理解现在

World’s History: How Comprehend the Present

本文从历史教育的角度, 论证了理解世界, 尤其是当今世界, 教材和课程安排必须包括世界史, 这需要对历史定位、历史思维及历史书写的方法论做出审慎的考虑。作者指出, 世界史有助于师生认识到世界并非远在天边, 而是浸透于我们的生活, 并且我们是其中的一部分; 有助于忍耐现代性的模棱两可性, 并有助于抵制原教旨主义的诱惑。在致力于当今的历史性时, 世界史有助于师生在现代社会把握方向, 在某种程度上制止弥漫世界的不平等性。

The author argues, from the prospective of history didactics, that in order to make sense of the world, especially of today's world, textbooks and curricula must embrace world history. The author indicates that the world’s history might help teachers and students to understand that‘the world’is not‘out there’somewhere, but that it saturates our lives and that we are part of it; it might help to endure the ambiguities of this modern world, and it might aid in resisting the temptation to turn to fundamentalism. In addressing the present world in its historicity, the world’s history might help teachers and students to gain a better orientation in this modern world, and perhaps to ease somewhat the inequalities that permeate the world in which knowledge has become a crucial means of participation.