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Education shifting from eurocentrism9 by Joseph bergernet York times from Grade school to graduate school the traditional american emphasis on the history literature music and Art of Europe once taken for granted is coming under increasing questioning leading to a change in the Way some schools Are teaching the humanities. The debate is crystallized in a relatively new word while its definition often depends on the political View of the definer euro centrism generally describes a provincial Outlook that focuses overwhelmingly on european and Western culture while giving Short shrift to Asia Africa and latin America. The term is usually used pejoratively equating in with elitism. As a topic of discussion eurocentrism has become one of the most compelling in current intellectual and educational discourse. The debate goes beyond the recent Dis Putes Over the contents of the Western civilization course at Stanford univer sity. American universities and Grade and High schools critics say Are eurocentric not Only because of the writers and philosophers they feature but because the Deal with non Western civilization Only through a Western Lens. These critics argue that Only a euro Centric viewpoint would say Columbus discovered America As if there had been no other people on the continent. Only eurocentric history teachers would treat Japan China and India not in their own right but in terms of wars or other encounters they have had with european nations and the United states critics contend. The critics maintain that african Art i primitive Only to a eurocentric Eye and european music is classical Only to a eurocentric ear. Why they ask Are Western religions treated seriously and those of other Peoples looked Down upon As superstitions Why the critics ask Are american children taught about venetian traveler Marco Polo but rarely about Ibn Batuta a 14th-Century moslem who visited India Sumatra and the niger River Aswell As Marco Polo s China Many educators agree that the euro Centric critique has some Validity but Many feel that it has been carried too , they say has become a roguish politically loaded slogan that i being used not just to foist often dubious changes on the curriculum but As a springboard to catapult minority and immigrant professors into faculty positions and to provide them with topics to writ about. It s being used As a weapon by the cultural left said Richard Rorty a pro Fessor of humanities at the University of Virginia. As usual i think the left is shoving us in the right direction but some of the ways they go about it Are sort of still the debate Over eurocentrism shaving an Impact even on educators regarded As moderate in thinking. It helped shape the new world history curriculum for All the elementary and High schools in California where his panic asian and Black students now make up a majority of the 4.4 million pupils. Students once required to take oneyear of world history now must take it in the sixth seventh and tenth grades to provide time to study the ancient civilizations of China India and Africa the growth of islam and the development of sub saharan Africa. Diane Ravitch a professor of Educa Tion and history at teachers College of Columbia University who co wrote the California curriculum said Many Educa tors believe that people who have non european backgrounds Don t feel their antecedents lie in but she said the curriculum still give primary emphasis to such traditional topics As ancient Greece the Magna Carta the Renaissance and the writings of Locke Rousseau and Montesquieu because if you reduce Europe to a land mass like Africa or Asia then you forge about Europe As the seedbed of demo cratic in some universities according to Richard Kagan a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University scholars Are beginning to reconstruct the history of african tubes not just by relying on accounts of Western travellers but by examining indigenous sources often Oral and adapting anthropological approaches. It s paying greater attention to the native View of the world rather than the Way europeans perceived these things Kagan said. Those who disagree with the eurocentric critique charge that the debate is really More about Power than about Thebes Way to educate people. The eurocentric critique detractors argue is rather Long on indignation but Short on suggestions of what non euro Pean writers philosophers and artists might replace the european ones
