Nation, Nationalism, Curriculum, and the Making of Citizens

Hofmann, Lukas Boser

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“…regionally anchored values regarding community and social order, had an impact on the organization of schooling and the design of the according curricula (for specific case studies, see e.g. Criblez & Hofstetter, 1998;Boser Hofmann & Dahn-Singh, 2017;Horlacher, 2017). Since these developments took place within one single nation-state (Switzerland), it is to be expected that they aimed at a comparable educational goal which had been shaped by the nation-state and which was superior to the individual cantons and their regional identities.…”

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Civics in the Curricular Construction of the Loyal National Citizen: A Comparative View of Switzerland

Horlacher

2020

Croatian Journal of Education

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The implementation of public schooling is usually understood as both an expressionand a means of nation-building. The formal organization of the school, i.e. thecurricula, teaching materials and the respective teacher’s education were interpretedas cultural-political arrangements deriving from assumed national convictionsabout the future of the particular nation-state and its ideal citizens. Against thisbackground, the entire learning arrangement of the curriculum can be seen asan instrument to educate pupils to become loyal national citizens. Of particularinterest is the curricular area which is explicitly dedicated to political education,i.e. civics. This paper focuses on precisely this area and its teaching materials oncivic education in a nation-state which comprises different nations organized bycantons, which cannot refer to a common religion, history or language and thusto a common culture. Examining two different cantons of Switzerland, this articledeals with the question of how nation-building may differ within the frameworkof one nation-state.Keywords: history of schooling; nineteenth century; textbooks; nation-building;citizenship education.

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