STANTON, MARY E.

In an effort to resolve the declining popularity of
World History in the Community Junior College, "A New Use
for Generalizations in the Teaching of World History" was
designed. Students have rebelled at traditional World
History courses because they have been forced to memorize
masses of irrelevant data; they have not been shown meaningful
transitions that would give students a sense of confidence
in their inheritance from the past; and students have
not received help from World History content to solve
current problems. "Living Ages," a syllabus for a World History course
using generalizations was included in the dissertation. The
course had been taught by Mary Stanton while head of the
Social Science Department and professor of history at Palm
Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach. A slight revision
of the chronological time-line models gave more time
for the emerging Third World Nations. The author's current
revision utilizing the principles of the doctoral dissertation
will make the course ready to teach as a survey
of World History on the college level.