Fraktur or Antiqua in primary schools? The struggle for a unified typeface in German-speaking Switzerland between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Boser, Lukas; Hofmann, Michèle

doi:10.1080/00309230.2019.1653945

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“…In many 19th-and 20th-century countries, teachers and pedagogues attempted to standardize handwriting in elementary education in order to create a common practice that reflected national homogeneity (e.g. Boser & Hofmann, 2019;Caruso, 2019), and similar attempts were made with elementary mathematics education.…”

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Nations and Numbers: Elementary Mathematics Education as a Nationalizing Tool

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2020

Croatian Journal of Education

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One of the central elements of the nation-building process in the 19th century wasthe attempt to homogenize the citizenry, i.e. to fabricate national citizens. Besidesthe military and church, schools were considered to be the main agencies capable ofachieving this national homogenization. In this paper, focusing on the education inSwitzerland and France, I argue that elementary mathematics education was alsoused for this particular purpose. I make the case that throughout the 19th centurymathematics education became a way to familiarize the people with a standardizedlanguage – a language that was supposed to help them master their specific social,cultural and political realities.Key words: mathematics education; nation building; Standard Language Ideology;state formation.

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