Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-967-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: Contemporary European History

Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium — border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venken, Machteld

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Schools, Language and Children during the First World War

Chapter 2. A Framework of Comparison

Chapter 3. Making the Border

Chapter 4. Scaping the Border

Chapter 5. A Universal Childhood

Conclusion

Appendix: Belgian and Polish Governments and Ministers Responsible for Education

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Venken, Machteld
Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History of the University of Luxembourg. She is the author of Straddling the Iron Curtain? Immigrants, Immigrant Organisations, War Memories (2011) and editor of The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Border-Making and Its Consequences (2020).