Nation, Nationalism and Schooling in Contemporary Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-3-7815-2542-9
Verlag: Julius Klinkhardt

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Schulbuch- und Bildungsmedienforschung

During the 19th century, up to the middle of the 20th century, the theme of national identity – and even more so of the absolute primacy of the nation – was firmly at the center of the educational projects of European states. Moreover, schools had and have been one of the fundamental instruments in the processes of nation building and, subsequently, in the establishment of nationalist perspectives, being used as a place of transmission of narratives aimed at legitimising the primacy of the nation, whether historically or ethnically based.
A significant undermining of the absolute primacy of the nation emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. A widespread desire to reduce the scope of national sovereignty, to fight against the drifts of nationalism, took on a new consistency. The ideological struggle centered on the two blocs, which characterized the age of the Cold War, contributed to strongly circumscribing the political space of nationalism, but the fall of the Wall has opened up new spaces both for the role of the nation and for the phenomena of micro-nationalism and neo-nationalism.
Scholars of different European countries contributed to the reflection on the interrelation of nation(alism) and schooling with a special focus on educational media. This reflection is more urgent than ever and is central to our future and our social, civil, and cultural development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellatalla, Luciana

Genovesi, Piergiovanni

Matthes, Eva

Schütze, Sylvia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Eva Matthes and Sylvia Schütze
Preface. 5
Luciana Bellatalla and Piergiovanni Genovesi
Introduction: Nation, Nationalism, and Schooling in Contemporary Europe. 9
Theory
Giovanni Genovesi
Building Our Identity: Education and School to Face Uncertainty. 25
Luciana Bellatalla
Nation: a Natural Fact or a Cultural Idea?. 30
Pierluca Turnone
Education and Globality: Rethinking the Nation from a Paideutic Perspective. 38
Vito Balzano
Crisis of Personal Identity in Contemporary Europe:

Future Scenarios in Italy in the Third Millennium. 47
Textbooks and Didactical Media
Werner Wiater
Patriotic Poetry in Elementary School Textbooks at the End of the 19th Century.
Did the School at That Time Contribute to the Spread of Nationalism in Germany?. 61
Fabrizio Solieri
A Lyceum from the Risorgimento to the Post-First World War Era.
Nation, Nationalism and Homeland in Books, Textbooks and Student Publications. 70
Ekaterina Romashina
The Image of the Capital as a Metaphor for National Identity:

Russian Primers from 1900 to 1925. 84
Jan Van Wiele
‘Nations’, ‘Nationalism’ and ‘Nation Building’ in Belgian National History
Textbooks for Catholic and State Secondary Education (1910–1960). 93
Simone Marsi
Fascist Traces in Italian Literature Textbooks. 109
Stefano Campagna
National History and Cinema in Fascist Primary School:

Reconstructing the Reception of Two Historical Films
through Children’s Writings. 124
Piergiovanni Genovesi
“A Lively Feeling of Human Brotherhood That Goes beyond the Narrow Limits
of Nationalism Should Dominate”.
Nationalism, War, Peace, Europe: Themes in Transition in Italian School Primers
in the Aftermath of the Second World War (1945–1957). 138
Sabrina Schmitz-Zerres
Future Narrations in History Textbooks of the German Democratic Republic
and the Federal Republic of Germany as Forms of Nation Building. 156
Stefania Carioli
National Identity, Memory and Historical Culture:

Risks and Opportunities of the Internet. 167
Karl Porges and Ian Stewart
The “Jena Declaration”: German Pedagogical Responsibilties. 180
Authors / Autori / Autor*innen. 195

Über Autor(innen)

Schütze, Sylvia
Sylvia Schütze, research associate at the Faculty of Educational
Science at the University of Bielefeld (Germany).

Matthes, Eva
Eva Matthes, full professor of Pedagogy at the University of
Augsburg (Germany).

Genovesi, Piergiovanni
Piergiovanni Genovesi, Associate Professor of Contemporary
History and History of Contemporary Europe at the University
of Parma (Italy).

Bellatalla, Luciana
Luciana Bellatalla, former full professor of Pedagogy at the
University of Ferrara (Italy).