Learning to Be Loyal: Primary Schooling as Nation Building in Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940

by Stephen L. Harp

Overview

How do nations inculcate loyalty? In Learning to Be Loyal, Harp explorers the role of primary education as the means by which both France and Germany used the teaching of national language, culture, geography, and history to transform ordinary people's local and religious identities into national ones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875802343
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Edition description:	1
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Explores the role of primary education in nation building in a region that moved back and forth between French and German control four times between 1871 and 1945, demonstrating that both countries used similar methods involving the teaching of language, culture, geography, and history to transform ordinary people's local and religious identities into national ones. Material provides a historical perspective for discussions about the role of education in meeting challenges of linguistic diversity and national culture in the late 20th century. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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