'Strategic ‘Linguistic Communities’: The Political Struggle for Nationalism in School

Will Brehm

doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_16

'Strategic ‘Linguistic Communities’: The Political Struggle for Nationalism in School

Will Brehm

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Abstract

School curricula are contested spaces of nationalism that socialize students into society and teach a certain set of morals, ethics, and history. But what version of the nation is articulated in school? More importantly, whose version is it? These questions are at the heart of the relationship between the project of mass schooling and the formation of nationalism in state governing apparatuses.i.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	(Re)Constructing Memory
Subtitle of host publication	School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation
Publisher	Sense Publishers
Pages	319-325
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9789462096561
ISBN (Print)	9789462096554
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_16
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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