International Reformation of Swedish History Education 1927–1961: The Complexity of Implementing International Understanding | Zendy

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International Reformation of Swedish History Education 1927–1961: The Complexity of Implementing International Understanding

Author(s) -

Thomas Nygren

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of world history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1527-8050

pISSN - 1045-6007

DOI - 10.1353/jwh.2011.0041

Subject(s) - league , curriculum , promotion (chess) , theme (computing) , world history , nationalism , political science , sociology , pedagogy , law , physics , astronomy , politics , computer science , operating system

This study shows how the international efforts for reforming history teaching, by the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, were both neglected and implemented, prior to and after the Second World War. International intentions towards international understanding and away from nationalism, were transferred, interpreted and also influenced by teachers’ and students’ views of history. International understanding and non-European history–but not intercultural history–became a dominant line in the Swedish curriculum in a complex top-down and bottom-up process.

Originally included in thesis in manuscript form

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