Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Between 1880 and 1938, schools in the Bohemian Lands became battlegrounds of nationhood and instruments of spatial control far beyond the classroom.This article explores how Czech and German nationalist associations turned education into a tool for asserting their cultural presence and redrawing territorial boundaries, particularly in linguistically mixed and contested regions.It traces the evolving role of the schoolhouse not only as a site of instruction but as a symbol of national sovereignty and a vehicle for geopolitical imagining.By examining the interplay between private activism, state policy, and cross-border networks, this study highlights how education contributed to the symbolic and material making of borders in East Central Europe.
Source: Studia Territorialia
Authors: Filipová, Lucie, Šír, Jan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
Funders: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Grantová Agentura, Univerzita Karlova, Colby College, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, European Commission, University College Dublin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Universität Greifswald, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
OpenAlex ID: W7218137739