Education and the nation

Tröhler, Daniel; Maricic, Veronika

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“…22 We should at least distinguish between institutional secularisation and cultural secularisation, that is, between the decline of the church as an institution in shaping public and private life and people's religious attitudes or dispositions that in modern times are often related to the nation. 23 To equate these two different kinds of secularisation is more or less wishful thinking on the part of Western intellectuals and actually a poor premise for good historiography.…”

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Giving Language to Taboos: Nation and Religion in Modern Educational Reasoning

Tröhler

2023

Nord J Educ Hist

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Like all taboos, nation and religion are so powerful precisely because they are often not brought to language. Educators around the world see themselves as secular, not religious, and rational, not national, and they develop their elegant, moral, and bland arguments precisely on this premise. This is, of course, capable of gaining majority support because it keeps the sociological machinery of educational thinking stably alive, but epistemologically it is unsatisfactory. Educational reasoning is sometimes as elegant as the freestyle of a virtuoso ice skater, sometimes as captivating as a rhetorically gifted village preacher, sometimes as clumsy as a plow horse that thinks it is a dressage horse. Some are the stars in the arena of academic education, others the moralizers, and others the bland extras. This rather simple sociology of educational reasoning emphasizes the different roles that Academics occupy in what Fleck called a “thought collective,” but it obscures that “thought collectives” share common “thought styles” in which, often carefully administered by national professional associations, truth is produced. In education, these “thought collectives” have historically been shaped by two fundamental elements. They are veritable taboo subjects, which are presupposed but hardly ever reflected upon, namely religion and nation.

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Giving Language to Taboos: Nation and Religion in Modern Educational Reasoning

Tröhler

2023

Nord J Educ Hist

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“…This Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (Special Issue) contributes to the ongoing debate (Millei and Imre, 2015; Tröhler, 2020a; Tröhler et al, 2023; Tröhler, 2023) on the relationship between education, nationalism and populism, responding to Tröhler’s (2020b) recent conclusion that as scholars we have underestimated the role of schooling in the construction and maintenance of nationalism. At the same time Tröhler argues that ‘we will never understand modern education if we exclude nationalism in the emergence of the modern nation-states’ (Tröhler 2020b: 1).…”

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Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’

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2023

European Educational Research Journal

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This Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (Special Issue) contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between education, nationalism and populism to enhance scholarly understanding of the construction and maintenance of nationalism. The special issue consists in total of six original articles that cover different sources, spaces and forms of nationalism: banal and virulent, strategic and habitual, reproduced by state actors and power elites versus individuals or groups who echo, subvert or extend the official narratives and nationalism as both nested in topographical spaces as well as in topological relations. It foregrounds the specificity of nationalism as a discursive-material-affective practice that unfolds contextually. The articles highlight, for instance, the relationships between nationalism and other `isms’ (populism, religious conservatism and authoritarianism) and the evolving processes such as climate emergency, improving recognition of indigenous rights, ambiguous expertisation or ubiquitous digitalisation. Overall, for the sociologies of education, the special issue highlights the importance of exploring both how education reproduces nationalism and how nationalism (as a strategy, practice, discourse, place-building and position-legitimating or affect) intervenes in and takes advantage of education.

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Nation-State

Tröhler

2024

The Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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Education and the nation

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Giving Language to Taboos: Nation and Religion in Modern Educational Reasoning

Giving Language to Taboos: Nation and Religion in Modern Educational Reasoning

Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’

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