Education, ‘Doing nation’, nation building and the development of national literacies

Autor(en)

Daniel Tröhler

Abstrakt

This Special Issue is dedicated to a social phenomenon that can deliver so much impact precisely because it is largely ignored: Nationalism, and more specifically everyday or banal nationalism and its relationship to education. Concerned people and researchers often discuss globalization or its supposed opposite, aggressive and ostentatious nationalism. They usually do this as moralists, and it is precisely in this role that they always point to others, other perpetrators and other victims, but never actually to themselves. The history of the last 200 years has shown how strongly nationalism creates identities, which, not least – and not coincidentally –, have become extremely visible again just now as mankind has had to fight a global virus, Covid-19. Under the motto, “Looking away is useless,” this Special Issue is devoted to the question of the extent to which modern education with its institutions, strategies and practices is related to the discursive reproduction of nationalism as an identity-generating cultural thesis about belonging. While the contributions collected here present individual case studies, the introduction first aims at defining basic concepts such as “nation,” “state” and “nation-state.” On this basis, approaches to educationally relevant research on nationalism will be discussed, such as the notion of nation as “second nature” of man, the idea of “doing nation” borrowed from gender studies, or, finally – with specific reference to the curricula – the development of “national literacies” as core effects on modern schooling.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503001 Allgemeine Pädagogik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/8c9e6489-29e5-445a-8511-c59ff998ddeb