Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building: Contributions of Comparative Education to the Understanding of Nations and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9781032307589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

Tröhler, Daniel

Opis

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.

Spis treści

Introduction: Understanding nationalism through the lens of education  1. Education and the nation: Educational knowledge in the dominant theories of nationalism  2. "The divine fire... burns within them." National Davids and Goliaths in Swiss, Danish, and Scottish school lessons  3. Nation-building by education statistics and data: A comparative perspective on school surveys in Switzerland, France, and Scotland  4. Education and nationalism after empire: Imposing and inventing the nation as the fundament of the modern state in interwar Austria and "Slovene Yugoslavia"  5. Sharing nationalism through public education in Latin America: An overview of early-twentieth-century Argentina and Mexico  6. Korean ethnic nationalism and modern education: Christianity and political ideologies in shaping one nation and two states  7. Nation-building and curriculum in Canada  8. Primers as a nation’s self-portrait: The case of Latvia and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s  9. Literacies of childhood and nation in the Anthropocene: Insights from (post) Soviet early literacy textbooks  10. Reform histories and changing educational conceptions of the nation and nationalism in Norwegian and Swedish curricula (1900–2020)  11. Concluding chapter: Education, nationalism and internationalism: gap-filling and gap-creating

O autorze

Daniel Tröhler is Professor of Foundations of Education, University of Vienna, Austria.