Details van artikel 158 van 159 gevonden artikelen
Word and world in mother tongue teaching in Finland: Curriculum policy in a bilingual society
Titel:
Word and world in mother tongue teaching in Finland: Curriculum policy in a bilingual society
Auteur:
Hansen, Sven-Erik
Verschenen in:
Language culture and curriculum
Paginering:
Jaargang 4 (1991) nr. 2 pagina's 107-117
Jaar:
1991
Inhoud:
The paper looks at the teaching of Finnish and Swedish as mother tongues in Finland in modern times. It uses a variety of perspectives, historical, social, political, linguistic, and pedagogic in order to formulate some general principles about the development of the mother tongue as a school subject in a broad societal context. The paper shows that mother tongue syllabi in Finland were shaped, to a large degree, both in content and pedagogy, by three successive waves of nationalism. The first, at the end of the last century, was concerned with the establishment of national identity in a European context. In the mother tongue classroom it put the focus on basic literacy and on national history and literature. The second, after the First World War, led to Finnish independence. A programme of Finnification followed, and Herbartian ideals of self-reliance and social concord, already prominent in Finnish educationsince the beginning of the century, became dominant in the educational system as a whole. In this period the heroic world of the text-book contrasts sharply with the daily lives of the pupils, while its Finnish and Swedish versions differ hardly at all. The third nationalist wave, the ethnic revival of the 70s, placed the emphasis on the mother tongue as a means of expressing and helping to preserve ethnic identity and, by so doing, helping to build a society that is ethnically diverse. The paper proposes a general framework for looking at the development of the mother tongue programme in its historical and social setting.
Uitgever:
Routledge
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
Details van artikel 158 van 159 gevonden artikelen
Tijdschrift beschrijving