Education, curriculum and nation-building : contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism / edited by Daniel Tröhler.

"Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building. Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Tröhler, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Oxford studies in comparative education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding nationalism through the lens of education / Daniel Tröhler
  • Education and the nation : educational knowledge in the dominant theories of nationalism / Daniel Tröhler & Veronika Maricic
  • "The divine fire... burns within them" : national Davids and Goliaths in Swiss, Danish, and Scottish school lessons / Nicole Gotling, Veronika Maricic & Lukas Boser
  • Nation building by education statistics and data : a comparative perspective on school surveys in Switzerland, France, and Scotland / Rebekka Horlacher, Sébastien-Akira Alix & Lukas Boser
  • After the final end of the great empire : imposing and inventing the nation as the fundament of the modern State in interwar Austria and "Slovene Yugoslavia" / Florian Gimpl & Jernej Kosi
  • Sharing nationalism through public education in Latin America : an overview of early-twentieth-century Argentina and Mexico / Howard Prosser, Jason Beech & Alonso Casanueva Baptista
  • Korean ethnic nationalism and modern education : Christianity and political ideologies in shaping one nation and two states / Terri Kim
  • Nation-building and curriculum in Canada / Jennifer Wallner & Stéphanie Chouinard
  • Primers as a nation's self-portrait : the case of Latvia and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s / Iveta Kestere & Irena Stonkuviene
  • Literacies of childhood and nation in the anthropocene : insights from (post)Soviet early literacy textbooks / Dilraba Anayatova, Ketevan Chachkhiani, Setrag Hovsepian, Iveta Silova & Keti Tsoniashvili
  • Reform histories and changing educational conceptions of the nation and nationalism in Norwegian and Swedish curricula (1900-2020) / Kirsten Sivesind & Magnus Hultén
  • Education, nationalism and internationalism : gap-filling and gap-creating / Michael Billig.