ABSTRACT

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.

Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education research. It integrates the theme of nation, nation-building and nationalism and its involvement with issues of education. It explores the theoretical scope of concepts such as national identities, national literacies, or "doing" nation. The book revives the idea that nation should be the starting point of comparative research and contributes to the theoretically reflective integration of nationalism research into education research.

This timely book will be highly relevant for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of comparative education, international education, education policy, and curriculum studies.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Understanding nationalism through the lens of education

chapter Chapter 1|27 pages

Education and the nation

Educational knowledge in the dominant theories of nationalism

chapter Chapter 3|22 pages

Nation-building by education statistics and data

A comparative perspective on school surveys in Switzerland, France, and Scotland

chapter Chapter 4|24 pages

Education and nationalism after empire

Imposing and inventing the nation as the fundament of the modern state in interwar Austria and “Slovene Yugoslavia” 1

chapter Chapter 5|23 pages

Sharing nationalism through public education in Latin America

An overview of early-twentieth-century Argentina and Mexico

chapter Chapter 6|25 pages

Korean ethnic nationalism and modern education

Christianity and political ideologies in shaping one nation and two states 1

chapter Chapter 8|21 pages

Primers as a nation's self-portrait

The case of Latvia and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s

chapter Chapter 9|30 pages

Literacies of childhood and nation in the Anthropocene

Insights from (post) Soviet early literacy textbooks

chapter Chapter 11|15 pages

Concluding chapter

Education, nationalism, and internationalism: gap-filling and gap-creating