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Challenges and Opportunities – Teachers’ Perspectives on Mother-Tongue Instruction in German in Sweden

open access: yes
The paper examines teachers’ perspectives on mother tongue instruction in German in Swedish primary schools. Through narrative interviews, teachers describe their personal experiences.
Ammon, Eva
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Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
wiley   +1 more source

Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
wiley   +1 more source

Nationalism and Education in the Arctic: A Study of Greenland in the Context of the Kingdom of Denmark

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the coconstitution of nationalism and education in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) within the Kingdom of Denmark. Drawing on Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and Siniša Malešević, it argues that schooling standardises language, history and civic repertoires, thereby fabricating the modern national subject ...
Benedikte Brincker, Mitdlarak Lennert
wiley   +1 more source

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