OUR SCULPTED

WORLDVIEWS
by Kristina Cổ
 HELLO!
I am Kristina Cổ (she/her)!
I am here because the way my mother country has been portrayed
in world history deeply affected how I viewed my own culture.

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QUESTION
How does diversifying world
history curriculums improve
American students’ views of
third world countries?

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 PROJECT
I gave weekly lessons about
third world countries’ cultures
and traditions to students who
took world history. Before and
after each lesson, I surveyed
them.
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 1450 CE
This is when most world history curriculums begin

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 INTERVIEWEE
Shalvi Kamble
Shalvi (she/her) is a student at Gunderson High School in the San
Jose Unified School District.

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 “
Those who faced being
colonized engaged in varying
forms of resistance and
adaptation to colonial rule
with varying degrees of
success.

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 86%
of respondents said they had no Latino colleagues on their
board

81%
of respondents said they had no Black colleagues on their
board

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 MENTOR & INTERVIEWEE
Rachel Reinhard
Dr. Reinhard (she/her) is the director of the History-Social Science
Project of the University of California, Berkeley.

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 THE IMPACT OF EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES

➢ Students who had almost completed their diversity

requirement made significantly more favorable judgments of
Estonians than those who had just started the requirement
➢ University students who participated in history classes that
were more emphasized towards Africa and Latin America
were able to better explain why third world countries lacked
resources than students who did not participate in diverse
history classes

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 PROJECT

Philippines Afghanistan El Salvador Sudan

The invention of the The ethnic group, The history and tribal Religion in Sudan and its
bamboo incubator. Pashtun. connection of pupusas. removal of a State
religion.

All students had heard All students had only 9 students have heard
about the Philippines in heard about about El Salvador due One student had read an
their world history Afghanistan in their to the extreme amount autobiography about the
classes through Spanish world history classes of violence in the Sudanese civil war. Ten
colonialism. Four also through 9/11 and Al country. 2 students did students did not know
mentioned the Japanese Qaeda. not know anything anything about Sudan
takeover in World War about El Salvador. (one student though it
II. was located in Latin
America).

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PROJECT DATA

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 82%
of minority students felt better about their self-esteem
when their countries were shown for their cultures outside
of the context of colonization

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 THANK YOU!
Any questions?
Digital portfolio: https://kristinacoseniorproject.weebly.com/

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