Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building

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

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